Um, Mr. Stewart, if you're reading this, first I want to apologize. In the past I wrote some things that you may have found slightly offensive. Like those bits about harmless Uncle Rod who shows up on ...

Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz) never liked jazz because it doesn’t resolve. One night he listened for 15 minutes to a man on the street play the saxophone without opening his eyes. “Sometimes you have ...

Before she was known as The SoulfulPsalmist, Charlena Nutall had to search within her artistry and faith to find a place in music where she felt she belonged. "I go where God sends me," said Nutall, a ...

Soon after I was born my father had a mental breakdown that lasted his entire life, which meant I never lived with him. Instead, I visited him on Sundays. Since I went on to be raised in a household ...

Jazz is the sound of God laughing. And I believe in it. I came to know jazz as a child, stretched out beneath my uncle's baby grand. I would lie there for hours drawing while Uncle Charlie practiced.