“This is take four,” says Rudy Van Gelder just before the band breaks into pianist Bobby Timmons’s composition and one of the most recognizable themes in jazz. As an opening track “Moanin ...

Not all the stars of the Oxford 250 weekend had four fenders. Jeffrey Battle, Bobby Timmons III, Ben Tinker and Brandon ...

The young and fiery Philadelphia trumpeter Lee Morgan, only 22 at the time, a wondrous tenor saxophonist and musical director Wayne Shorter, born in Newark, New Jersey in 1933 and still playing now ...