Music, much like language, never stays in one place too long; it continuously changes and develops. When bebop came onto the jazz scene, for example, it didn't take long for this evolutionary process ...

“Cookin’ Cheap” was true to its name. It was a TV show about cookin’, and it was cheap. It came from a public television station in Roanoke, Va., in 1981, and went national for a while on PBS. That ...