The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and ...

Saratoga Jazz Festival, presented by GE Vernova will return for a full two-day and two-stage weekend experience on Saturday, ...

"I kind of digressed into more jazz and blues and really got into Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone," she told Music Week in 2016. "I'm always inspired by musicians who I felt were musicians before ...

You have people like Cal Tjader, and you have a whole host of other modern jazz musicians that congregated around Brubeck - it was almost a Brubeck school. SMITH: So, was Dave Brubeck the pioneer ...

Kamasi Washington, a master of contemporary jazz music, will take his talents to downtown Miami this winter. The Los ...

Among the musicians who have played with the band are George Garzone ... DAVID ADLER - PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY "David writes beautifully, with a unique...voice in the field of modern jazz composition.... ...

propelled by high-energy bands springing up from Connecticut and Pittsburgh led by Art Blakey and Horace Silver. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of ...