This week, the jazz world celebrated what would have been Miles Davis' 100th birthday. The late trumpet player is widely considered one of the most innovative and influential jazz musicians of all ...
Rollins, who died May 25, had for decades been hailed as the greatest living jazz musician. Kevin Whitehead offers an appreciation, and we listen back to Rollins' 1994 interview with Terry Gross.
Get tickets to see Miles Davis, John Coltrane centennial celebration concerts by Ravi Coltrane and Terence Blanchard at SFJAZZ Center.
By the end of his life, no jazz musician of his importance was left—but then again, hardly anyone ever reached Rollins’s ...
Jazz legends Eddie Henderson (trumpet) and Gary Bartz (saxophone) were joined by NEA Jazz Master Billy Hart, bassist Ben Street, and pianist Kevin Hays at Smoke Jazz Club on May 27 to kick off a ...
NJPAC revealed the lineup for the 15th annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival in Newark, featuring an Ben Vereen 80th birthday ...
There are many things about Miles Davis to remember as we mark 100 years since his birth. There’s the 1950s and 60s elegance and lyricism, with his Harmon muted trumpet, the tone of which was once ...
St. Louis has always stood at the intersection of the great modern musical genres, whether that’s the blues, jazz, rock and roll, or hip-hop. So it only makes sense that Terence Blanchard and Ravi ...
Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend dubbed the Saxophone Colossus known for his inimitable improvisational skills, has died at the ...
Freddie Hubbard’s sophomore LP ‘Goin’ Up’ will be reissued via Blue Note as part of the label’s Classic Vinyl Series.
One hundred years after the late Miles Davis was born, the revolutionary trumpet player remains one of the 20th century's ...
Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist and restless genius whose bold, distinctive tone and constant experimentation kept him ...