No, those aren’t the cadenced numbers an NFL quarterback calls out just before the ball is hiked in a game. Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists — Charles Lloyd, Charles ...

The Best Is Yet To Come; Sophisticated Lady; Close Your Eyes; When The World Was Young; Since I Fell For You; The Nearness Of You; My One And Only You; A Sleepin' Bee; Glad To Be Unhappy; If He Walked ...

This year’s best music, our critic thinks ... Duke Ellington released an album titled Will Big Bands Ever Come Back? He knew the answer, of course, but kept making profoundly original music ...

The year’s best Canadian jazz albums are, as usual, a varied bunch, with a big band’s roar, adventurous pianism and a swinging but intimate duo vying for the attention of music-lovers.

However, Jackson was much more than a vital part of the famous chamber jazz group and he recorded a string of excellent albums, including three sessions ... and with Gillespie's big band of 1946.

The multi-genre outfit has recently been racking up big ... Best of Sade is not only the group’s second leader on the Contemporary Jazz Albums tally, it’s their second ruler this summer. The ...