Winding road leads to rhapsody in jazz
At the age of 21, Paul Pax Andrews had an awakening. Touring with a 15-year-old James Morrison and the Young Northside Big Band, the budding saxophonist attended the Monterey Jazz Festival and met trumpet legend Dizzie Gillespie.

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OSU professor’s jazz CD celebrates triumph over drug addiction and more
Elaine Richardson still tears up at the memory of calling the ambulance. So high on cocaine at nine months’ pregnant that she assumed the fetus inside her 27-year-old body had no chance, she had reached the point of wishing to go to jail for the umpteenth time to save herself – and her unborn baby – from destruction. Amazingly, her baby girl – her second child – was born healthy, providing …

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Hear great jazz, get some history in Kansas City, Mo.
Standing at the corner of 18th and Vine in Kansas City, music surges through the night air, filling the streets with a spirit that enthusiasts and artists say can’t be experienced anywhere else in the world.

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Dark side of the Jazz Age
In her new book, “The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York,” Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum sees a dark side of the 1920s.

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‘The Poisoner’s Handbook’: CSI’s Jazz Age Roots
Deborah Blum’s history of the birth of forensic science details the work of Charles Norris, New York City’s first chief medical examiner, and Alexander Gettler, Norris’ head toxicologist. The two advanced many of the technologies that allow scientists to track toxic substances in the body.

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