“When he walks into a room,” trumpeter and bandleader Wynton Marsalis once said of Jimmy Heath, “jazz history is made.” Not only was Mr. Heath one of the most accomplished saxophonists and composers ...

Al Tinney, a beloved and distinguished Buffalo pianist who influenced the birth of bebop jazz in New York City in the 1940s, died Wednesday (Dec. 11, 2002) in Buffalo General Hospital. He was 81.

Dizzy Gillespie was a musical revolutionary and a charismatic entertainer, high-spirited and highly disciplined, a master trumpeter and a survivor from a jazz generation that lost many of its young.

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Growing up in North Carolina, Gayle Murchison often saw jazz musician Mary Lou Williams perform on local TV. Thus began a career-long arc of circling back to study Williams for Murchison, associate ...

Is jazz showing its age? (From the July, 1996, issue of The Atlantic Monthly.) A selective guide to jazz sites on the Web. It isn't just the generation gap between today's most popular jazz musicians ...

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 ...

Max Roach, a master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations provided the dislocated beats that defined bebop jazz, has died after a long illness. He was 83. The self-taught musical ...

On December 8, jazz pianist Barry Harris died in Weehawken, New Jersey. He was 91 years old and died due to complications from COVID-19. A close friend of Harris reported that she suspected the artist ...

When you discuss jazz and trombones with Delfeayo Marsalis, you’re always going to be talking about J.J. Johnson. “He came to The Regattabar when I was a student at Berklee College of Music. It was ...