Black suits, glinting brass and a sold-out crowd. Such was the scene as Bienen students took the floor Monday evening at the ...

New York, NY -- True to the groove rhythms of hard bop made famous by drummer and bandleader Art Blakey, the John Brown Quintet is releasing its debut CD, Terms of Art: A Tribute to Art Blakey and the ...

Indulge me for a moment, and imagine the jazz snob: turtleneck, horn-rimmed specs, that goddamned snapping and a nasally tone of condescension for anything but the most difficult of musical forms.

This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 1998. When trying to investigate jazz, all the classifications and categories can be a bit confusing. What do they mean when they say ...

Hard Bop Messengers bring their hit show "Jazz Interpretations of the Grateful Dead" back to Blue Strawberry after its sold-out debut. Hard Bop Messengers bring their hit show "Jazz Interpretations of ...

“Lou Donaldson DSC0004a” by Marek Lazarski is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. On Saturday, Nov. 9, the jazz world lost a legend with the passing of Lou Donaldson. Donaldson was a bebop mainstay, a ...

Celebrated jazz trombonist, composer, and integral player in the development of the hard-bop movement of the 1950s and 60s, Curtis DuBois Fuller, died in Detroit on May 8 at the age of 88. Born in ...

Bebop -- Hard bop begins -- A new mainstream -- The scene -- The lyricists -- Tenors and organs -- The power of badness -- Hard bop heterodoxy : Monk, Mingus, Miles, and Trane -- Changes -- The last ...

TRANSCRIPT: I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. After World War II, jazz entered a bold new chapter. The big band era ...

Curtis Fuller, an acclaimed jazz trombonist who was a key contributor to the bluesy, hard-bop style of the 1950s and 1960s and who was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, died ...

Just weeks after Jazz St. Louis shut down Strauss Park with a parade and street party marking its 30th anniversary, the organization has another reason to celebrate. It has received an $80,000 general ...

Freddie Hubbard, an influential jazz trumpeter who played with such legends as John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman, died Monday in Sherman Oaks. He was 70. By Jonathan Cohen, The Associated ...