Celebrate the birthday of iconic jazz trumpet player, Freddie Hubbard, born in Indianapolis in 1938. Hubbard’s technical mastery of the trumpet earned widespread critical acclaim, and his influence ...

Jazz guitar icon George Freeman passed away on April 1 at the age of 97. The celebrated musician had planned to mark his 98th birthday on April 10 with a series of concerts at Chi ...

The sax-player Kenny Garrett established a reputation as one of Miles Davis’s band in the Amandla (1989) period. He was also a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the launching-pad for scores of ...

Jazz musicians at Eckstein Middle School, young Isaac Plummer and Oren Sternberg share their favorite jazz with KNKX ...

As I was reminded throughout that evening, jazz is the most fundamental expression of innovation and creativity in American ...

Ah spring, when a (not so) young man's thoughts turn to vinyl and the upcoming Record Store Day celebrations, which this year ...

Like other heavy swingers at the drums ... Roy Haynes subbed in John Coltrane's quartet when Elvin Jones was unavailable. A few years later, he connected with a young pianist whose father he ...

Alice Coltrane's harp comes on like the siren lure of angels ... un hard bop intriso d'avanguardia—in particolare John Coltrane—che si sviluppa con intensità febbrile per due ore. Il merito va al ...

While there, he worked with Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton ... Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch and John Coltrane's Ascension), but Hubbard never fully embraced free jazz, though it has influenced his playing ...

By the 1930s, nearly all of the number one musical artists in the United States were considered jazz artists; in the following decades, jazz musicians like ... and John Coltrane in the 20th ...

His short story Sonny’s Blues was published in 1957 ... He explores how the piece moves on its music, specifically jazz, and relates how it reminds him of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, the work in ...