Saxophonist, composer and bandleader Virginia Mayhew has appeared in major New York jazz venues from the Blue Note to Carnegie Hall, toured internationally and twice represented the U.S. as a Jazz ...

Ray Nance recorded Body and Soul, his first album as a leader, in May 1969, almost thirty years after he took over Cootie Williams' trumpet chair in the Duke Ellington orchestra, but only about two ...

Jazz pianist Tammy Hall doesn't look like a troublemaker, but she's been known to instigate a brawl or two. Over the past decade, she's become one of the region's most sought after accompanists, an ...

Duke Ellington: Symphony of the Body and Soul article by Raul d'Gama Rose, published on April 1, 2009 at All About Jazz. Find more Highly Opinionated articles ...

This week, Romanian pianist Marian Petrescu makes his Piano Jazz debut with guest host Renee Rosnes. The fleet-fingered Petrescu has been performing in Europe since he was a teenager. Petrescu makes a ...

Its haunting melody has inspired more than 3,000 recordings, most notably saxophonist Coleman Hawkins’ 1939 masterpiece. But what does Johnny Green’s “Body and Soul” tell us about jazz, race and ...