— Standifer was born on a farm in Gresham, where (purportedly) he learned to get the right tone on his trumpet by playing for livestock. The trumpeter would go on to be both a national name in jazz, ...

Listen to this playlist on Spotify or Apple Music. It's hard to imagine having a wider swath of Latin music expression as we have this week: OG Latino hip-hop artist Fat Joe teams with a rapper of the ...

Blues and jazz gave birth to swing music, and Colorado played a role in that development. The music was nurtured in the state by Glenn Miller, who began his musical exploration in Fort Morgan, as well ...