For six decades, Don Marquis, a son of small-town Indiana, has been the bard of Big Easy jazz. A fixture of the French Quarter, he's written countless articles and a classic book. He established the ...

The cavernous dance club in downtown L.A. is hopping, and the weekend is still a day away. The club is ordinarily a hotbed of thumping house music, but tonight, the headliner — Houston-born jazz ...