Stars like Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, and Jada Pinkett Smith are huge stars, but they aren't as tall as you might think.

It is widely believed, and backed by science, that women outlive men, but there is new talk of the role your height might play in longevity — specifically, shorter people may live longer than taller ...

Jazz history is recent history. Wayne Shorter, who was born only thirteen years after Charlie Parker and seven years after Miles Davis and John Coltrane, turns eighty-five today. Shorter is the ...

With hindsight, a fitting nickname for Shorter would be The Mysterious Traveller, after the piece he wrote for Weather Report. It references his search for self-awareness and cosmic truth, his love of ...

Sometimes the semiology around an album can tell you more about it than any amount of words attempting to describe the music itself. And the semiology around Milton + esperanza is eloquent. It begins ...