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Sixty-three years ago, on New Year’s Day in 1955, pianist Teddy Wilson, bassist Milt...
Today’s Jazz Singers on Ella Fitzgerald. Apologies to James Brown, but Ella Fitzgerald, who...
Forty-eight years ago this month, pianist Thelonious Monk appeared in Berlin at the Berliner...
The history of the Count Basie orchestra is generally divided into two broad periods...
The trumpet enjoys a renaissance in jazz. The trumpeters vary the tone between feverish...
Columbia was scorned by jazz fans and critics. The double album featured Thelonious Monk...
In January 1964, trumpeter Chet Baker was arrested at the Blue Note in Berlin....
Oscar Peterson was an exceptional jazz pianist, especially in front of a live audience....
The UK’s ‘La Linea’ festival of Latin music is set to return next year,...
Trombonist Roswell Rudd, who had been suffering from cancer, died Dec. 21. He was...
With its multifaceted radicalism, the Art Ensemble of Chicago occupies a singular niche in...
