Billy Jacobs is a painter living and working in New York City. A self-described Tom Wilson aficionado, Jacobs’ paintings often depict the forgotten, obscure, or undervalued figures of American social ...

Lou Donaldson, who has died aged 98, was an alto saxophonist whose fluid, soulful style helped to shape the face of modern jazz; a protégé of the king of bebop, Charlie Parker, he went on to ...

(SOUNDBITE OF LOU DONALDSON'S "WHO'S MAKING LOVE") WHITEHEAD: Baritone saxophonist Claire Daly, who died in October, sang a little also, as if to remind us the jazz horn is an extension of the ...

In the 1960s, though, with family to support, Donaldson started making populist records long before David Sanborn - danceable music aimed at party people, not jazz snobs. And that's OK.

Lou Donaldson, who has died aged 98, was an alto saxophonist whose fluid, soulful style helped to shape the face of modern jazz; a protégé of the king of bebop, Charlie Parker, he went on to ...

Lou Donaldson — a preeminent alto saxophonist whose style as a disciple of Charlie Parker was steeped in traditional bebop with encompassing tones of blues and funk — died on Nov. 9, in ...

DONALDSON: Whenever they'd applause, that's what I kept playing. (SOUNDBITE OF LOU DONALDSON'S "ALLIGATOR BOGALOO") CHANG: The great saxophonist Lou Donaldson died on Saturday at the age of 98.

LOU DONALDSON: If you don't play the blues, you lose. If you don't play the jazz and swing, you're not playing jazz. CHANG: The man known as Sweet Papa Lou also had words for other styles.