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 ...

“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 ...

Charles McPherson is an American alto saxophonist and composer with a career spanning eight decades. He has worked closely with a host of artists, among whom are some considered to be originators and ...

The Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra (SSJO) will open its 2024-2025 season honoring the music of two genre giants with a play on one of William Shakespeare’s famous phrases: “To Be or Not to Bop: ...

Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and his quintet performs June 28 as part of the Stanford Jazz Festival’s opening weekend. Courtesy Eva Kapanadze. The Stanford Jazz Festival has always been a wide-ranging event, ...

The course: Bebop, Modernism and Change. 3 credits. Offered by the Center for Africana Studies in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Syllabus: “Jazz is a marvelous subject that needs more ...

Tyrone Washington’s ‘Natural Essence’ album will be re-released on vinyl through the Blue Note Tone Poet Series early next ...