Chick Corea, a Grammy award winning jazz musician has died at the age of...
masters of jazz
There comes a time when musical expression flows directly from the soul—unimpeded, unfiltered. Unmasked....
Maybe it’s these unsettled times that call for calming sounds. Or perhaps it’s this writer’s...
Billie Holiday’s tumultuous life story surely has been told more often, and in more...
The best jazz requires improvisation. So do the best lives. You can’t buy sheet...
He was nicknamed Bird and he soared in his music – if not in...
Benny Golson pulls the microphone off the stand to tell the audience at Ronnie Scott’s...
By the mid-1950s, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz had become a sensation as a soloist...
In 1964, Canadian filmmaker Gilles Groulx directed Le Chat Dans le Sac (The Cat in...
If we’re evaluating jazz musicians on tone alone, Art Farmer was perhaps the prettiest...
Dexter Gordon lived in Europe for 14 years. It was obviously congenial because during...
Bassist and composer Charles Mingus used to be a figure of controversy for ten...
