Wadada Leo Smith performing at St. Mary’s Church in Pohja, Finland.
(Photo: Petri Haussila)May 13, 2021 1:00 PM
During decades of recording and work alongside a cast of co-conspirators that could serve as a summation of jazz’s avant-garde wing, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has mapped his…
Lena Horne
(Photo: DownBeat Archives)May 7, 2021 12:00 PM
Somewhere in the background, by the piano in the living room, Lennie Hayton sat with coffee in hand, filling the air with that pregnant, Van Dyked Lennie Hayton brand of dignified silence. In the smaller music room Lena, quiet and conservative in the black-and-white outfit with the white turban hat, toyed with her coffee and talked, never too quietly nor too conservatively, of music and children and acting and singing and how life had been for her in this past propitious year.
Lena Horne and New York are in love. For the first time in her adult life…
