People will tell you that Coleman Hawkins was the Henry Ford of the tenor sax. After Ford, everybody was going around driving in a Model T; after hearing Hawkins, everybody had to get a saxophone.

Recorded in England in 1958, this little-known session, originally released on the obscure Felsted label, is an inarguable gem. Perhaps even the word "masterpiece" is not too much of a stretch. It's ...

Even the mighty hawk will eventually take flight no more. In 1979, the late Col. Robert Sullivan started an irreverent and comically-secretive organization called The Honorable and Ancient Order of ...

This tiny western kingbird tried to drive away a Harris hawk by repeatedly dive-bombing it. At one point it even hitched a lift by landing on the bigger bird’s back. The showdown was spotted by ...

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Bell engineers completely “took apart” their V-280 tiltrotor aircraft to ensure the platform can perform at an optimal level for decades into the future. Reliability and service life, coupled with an ...

Bird of Prey Blues; My One and Only Love; Vignette; Ooh-Wee, Miss G.P.!; You've Changed; Get Set; Sunday; Hanid; Honey Flower; Honey Flower [alternate take]; Nabob ...