By Michael Fagien As we were putting together this special issue celebrating trumpet players, I……...
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“Manteca,” by percussionist Chano Pozo and the Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Orchestra, served as a prototype for the genre of music that would come to be known as Latin jazz.
“Manteca,” by percussionist Chano Pozo and the Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Orchestra, served as a prototype for the genre of music that would come to be known as Latin jazz.
That long-touted “special relationship” between England and the United States extends from politics and humor……...
Charlie Parker’s “Ko-Ko,” considered his first recording as a leader, was set to wax on this day (November 26) in 1945 at WOR Studios in New York City.
Trumpeter John Birks Gillespie was born on this day (October 21) in Cheraw, South Carolina,…
Pianist Bud Powell, who together with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie would be enshrined as…
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August 17, 2019, marked the 60th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis’ Kind of…
Vibraphonist Cal Tjader, one of the earliest musicians to introduce Latin elements into the jazz idiom, was born on this day (July 16) in St. Louis in 1925.
On this day (May 17) in 1937, trumpeter John Birks Gillespie — better known by…
Betty Carter (Photo: Jack Vartoogian/DL Media, Inc.) Betty Carter, a charismatic singer who imbued her…
Today (May 3) marks the birthday of pianist and Modern Jazz Quartet founding member John…
Happy Birthday to the “First Lady of Song,” jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, who was born on this day (April 25) in Newport News, Virginia, in 1917.
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“Manteca,” by percussionist Chano Pozo and the Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Orchestra, served as a prototype for the genre of music that would come to be known as Latin jazz.
Charlie Parker’s “Ko-Ko,” considered his first recording as a leader, was set to wax on this day (November 26) in 1945 at WOR Studios in New York City.
Jazz has its fair share of seminal moments, but there are few that feel as…
By: Joe Pye On May 5, an apartment in Miles Davis’ old Upper West Side…