Bossa nova icon Sergio Mendes has credited the great success he’s enjoyed in his career……...
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Not exactly a youngster at age 37, Mel Tormé had long established himself as a……...
Pianist Nduduzo Makhathini doesn’t view his status as the first South African musician to sign……...
At first, alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin was ambivalent about recording a Coltrane tribute album, but……...
On March 15, 2018, Charles Lloyd celebrated his 80th birthday with an epic yet intimate……...
By the time Artemis, an all-star ensemble, dug deep into the blues while trading solos……...
“I can play all I know in eight bars.” —Charlie Parker “You could look……...
There’s no shortage of commentary proclaiming the significance of the meteoric genius Charlie Parker. Born……...
Vincent Herring’s concept for the live recording Bird at 100 (Smoke Sessions) was simple: gather……...
Just off Barcelona’s bustling commercial strip known as La Rambla sits the Plaza Real, a……...
In December, at a private event in Singapore, former President Barack Obama said, “I’m absolutely……...
Standing on the tiny stage of Manhattan’s Zinc Bar in November, the dozen or so……...
“Sneha,” a haunting ballad first recorded in Thailand in the mid-1960s, has become an iconic……...
Although the DIVA Jazz Orchestra only began recording for the MCG Jazz label in 2014,……...
In an age of strictly defined stylistic directions in jazz, Dopolarians ventures into decidedly “inside-outside”……...
Dizzy Gillespie’s keen interest in melding 1940s bebop with Afro-Cuban music was spurred by his……...
New York City-born guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg wowed South Florida audiences while attending the University of……...
The 2019 centennial birthday of master drummer Art Blakey has inspired a number of tributes,……...
With Wild Wild East, drummer Sunny Jain — who grew up the son of Indian……...
For pure hipness, the Johnny Griffin-Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis Quintet stands among the jazz elite. They……...