A jazz musician and a graphic designer launching their own line of custom soaps sounds like an odd proposal, but this father-son duo are combining traditional soapmaking practices with modern design ...

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University of Illinos professor Ron Bridgewater has traveled the world playing his saxophone. Getting Personal is a Q&A with a local personality. Here, 67-year-old Urbana resident Ron Bridgewater ...

Artist Jameel Bridgewater listens as his father, jazz saxophone professor Ron Bridgewater, describes his grandmother Erma Scott Bridgewater’s experiences as one of the earliest Black students to ...

Drummer Billy Parker's 1975 album only tangentially connects to Fourth World music, the pancultural style which was given its name five years later by Jon Hassell on Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible ...