Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s ...

the kind experienced at the Village Vanguard, the triangular basement club in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village where many a memorable jazz recording was made (including Bill Evans’s 1961 piano ...

Proclaimed by Vanity Fair magazine, “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade or so,” Fred ... artist in the 75-year history of New York's legendary Village Vanguard to ...

It’s no wonder then that jazz and the freedom it carries and conveys have long flourished in New York City, and those places like the Village Vanguard ... run jazz club in the world.