This is FRESH AIR. Jazz pianist Sonny Clark grew up in and around Pittsburgh and made his first recordings in LA during the heyday of cool jazz in the 1950s. He later moved to New York in 1957, where ...

Red Bank Boogie; Echoes Of Spring; Handful Of Keys; Boogie Woogie On St Louis Blues; I Know That You Know; C. Jam Blues; Sweet Georgia Brown; Blues; Rhythm Hitch; Chicka Boom Blues; Play Piano Play; ...

Jazz history tends to favor the great musical innovators whose stylistic leaps have formed the ever-changing vocabulary of jazz: the improvisational wonder of Louis Armstrong, the free flight of ...