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 ...

New Yorkers showed their appreciation for the arts this week at the 21st annual Winter Jazzfest. The vibrant sounds of jazz ...

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 ...

He began performing professionally in his teens and studied music theory and piano at the ... Metheny even called Hall “the ...

voice in the field of modern jazz composition... [He] plays fierce soprano saxophone, holding up strong next to Dick Oatts, George Garzone and other world-class players. Norman David directs, plays ...