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 ...

“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 ...

This article was first published at All About Jazz in January 2002. Jazz piano and world music rhythm make an enchanting pair. With the popularization of world beat music, jazz musicians nurtured on ...

The comments on the guestbook pages of the jazz septet, Afro Bop Alliance would swell any musician’s head. “Love your sound É wow,” wrote Patty Kenny last March. That same month, Joy Roy wrote that ...

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 ...

In many respects, jazz has passed its prime. Like the American film western or baseball as the national pastime, jazz is a medium of “the good old days.” But a few times each semester, BC bOp! brings ...

Additionally, Jazz at Lincoln Center is honoring the historic relationship between art and jazz during these two shows. The sounds and rhythms of jazz have been a source of inspiration for visual ...

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: ...

Follow the musical journey of this often overlooked, but totally musical genius. Through the testimonials of family, friends and devoted fellow musicians of all ages, Wham-Re-Bop-Boom-Bam: The Swing ...

As the lights dimmed in Bonn Studio Theater on Thursday night, the rhythmic pulse of jazz music filled the room to signal the start of Boston College bOp!’s Coffee House performance. Like a late-night ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The spring concert season is underway and that means that America’s roads and highways are filling up with deluxe busses and 18-wheelers carrying high-tech stage and audio gear for ...