Mobile and Baldwin County News
Mobile-raised musicians Fred Wesley Jr. and Bernard Odum helped build the sound of James Brown's bands, going on to careers that carried the Port City's musical legacy into funk, jazz…
April is Jazz Appreciation Month, a national observance created to spotlight the musicians who shaped America’s homegrown art form. In Mobile, that means looking back at the city’s own contributions…
For Jazz Appreciation Month, a look back at Mobile-born trumpeter Cootie Williams, whose growling plunger-mute style with Duke Ellington's orchestra and decades on the bandstand made him one of the…