I (and hundreds of others, I expect) received an e-mail Tuesday morning announcing the retirement from recording and live performing by Leon Redbone. People of a certain age may have fond and ...

WESTPORT — In 1926, Fats Waller, a jazzman who began to show signs of piano talent at 6, was kidnapped by four armed men. Afraid he was going to be killed, he was relieved to discover he was the ...

Leon Redbone's musical heroes hail from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, people like Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards, Jelly Roll Morton and Emmett Miller. They may be obscure today, but in their ...

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