Wrens Burford Masons

As nurses, ‘Jenny Wrens’, and above all as wives and mothers, women have quietly kept the Royal Navy afloat throughout history. From its earliest years, women maintained homes and ...

The Mahalia Jackson Show was part of an aggressive and coordinated effort by CBS and its subsidiary label Columbia Records to lure Jackson away from Apollo. The effort was successf...

For many, Jackson’s output for Apollo during her eight years with the label remain the most admired recordings of her career and prime exemplars of post-war gospel singing. This ch...

William “Bill” Russell (1905–1992) is best known as one of the preeminent experts on early jazz, having been a principal contributor to the seminal collection Jazzmen (1939). In th...