The heavyweights continued to reign in the Billboard Jazz Chart this week, with Michael Buble…
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A previously unreleased album by saxophonist Stan Getz made its debut at No. 2 on…
The Week in Jazz is your roundup of new and noteworthy stories from the jazz…
Ryan Porter’s new album Force For Good is featured on our Weekly Discover Playlist for June…
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Jazz may not have an official yearbook, but it does have a vast and well-documented……...
On this date in 1962, saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Charlie Byrd — Brazilophiles both — came together at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C., to record Jazz Samba, one of America’s earliest known recordings of bossa nova.
In the ’60s, as new subgenres like free-jazz, hard-bop, modal jazz and fusion began to flourish stateside, over in Brazil, a group of chic, melody-minded composers were engaged in their own jazz experiment.
Trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Stan Getz were a match made in jazz heaven.
“The Girl from Ipanema” (Portuguese title “Garota de Ipanema”) is one of the most recorded…
Charles Hersch, chair of the department of Political Science at Cleveland State University, has written…