An even bigger surprise was “Django,” written by John Lewis for the Modern Jazz Quartet ... and also an early supporter of Mr. Marsalis and JALC. I’ve been listening to Wynton Marsalis for 40 years ...

In the early 70s, Bob joined the ABC Orchestra playing percussion for two years and then brass for 10 years. In 1978, he played in modern jazz quartet Pyramid alongside David Hirschfelder ...

When they built their lineups in the early ... Tucson Jazz Institute’s Ellington Big Band, 11:30 a.m.; Heather Hardy and Taste of Jazz, 1 p.m.; Zona Libre, 2. Tucson Modern Jazz Quartet opens ...

The avant-garde jazz quartet is celebrating 25 years in business with two shows at The Bop Stop at the Cleveland Music ...

The British architect has built an unprecedented factory of fine design. Inside the world of the man who creates exquisite ...

Sometime in the late 1960s or early ’70s ... and the jazz scene seemed to change forever. There remains something mysterious about the years leading up to this tragic event.

Its early coverage of jazz ... two years, she had adopted a more generous appraisal of the form—she described the white bandleader Paul Whiteman’s now-famous “An Experiment in Modern Music ...

It is not an overstatement to say that modern jazz ... a majority of jazz pianists... Read more. Place our Musician of ... Pianist McCoy Tyner is best known for being a member of the John Coltrane ...

For Mark Morganelli, 1985 was a watershed year. He married Ellen Prior and started a free summer jazz concert series in Riverside Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.   This year, […] ...

Django Reinhardt is to the guitar what Bach is to the piano,” the 50-year-old Wrembel says. “Django showed us how guitar ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...