Arguably probably the most adventurous female jazz singer ever, Betty Carter was an idiosyncratic stylist along with a restless improviser who pushed the limits of melody and harmony just as much as any kind of bebop horn player. The husky-voiced Carter was with the capacity of radical, off-the-cuff reworkings of …

Bandleader Ken “Snakehips” Johnson was the leading superstar of Britain’s dark swing movement from the Globe War II period. Delivered Kenrick Reginald Hymans Johnson in Georgetown, United kingdom Guiana, on Sept 10, 1914, he went to Queens College before age group of 15, when his rich parents delivered him to …