This is just one of the remarkable portraits by John Thomas Smith collected together  in a large handsome volume entitled “Vagabondiana,” published in 1817, that I discovered in the collection of the ...

Let’s put some numbers behind a trend you might have already observed for yourself: There are simply a mind-boggling number of new hotels opening all around the world. In your hometown, the next town ...

Rather than provide detailed reviews of these never-before-released and/or reissued jazz recordings, we will summarize each ...