Award-winning jazz bassist, educator and mentor Hayden, at age 68, is today the youngest recipient of Detroit’s highest arts ...
This is why all jazz musicians are composers ... And if you ever have the chance to listen to a classic jazz improvisation over and over again — Coleman Hawkins' Body and Soul, or Thelonious ...
In the late 1970s Columbia Records’ jazz roster included artists such as Dexter Gordon, Woody Shaw, Weather Report, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Stan Getz and others, led by a label ...
When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the ...
Bruno Major splices classic singer/songwriter confessionals with sleek modern electronic production, girding the entire enterprise with hints of soul. Based in Camden, London, Major was trained as a ...
Jazz at the Ten Spot delivers the best of classic and contemporary jazz each ... host of Jazz at the Ten Spot is an NCPR volunteer, an artist, a jazz maven, and a retired faculty member of St ...
Top tier musicians, keyboardist Henry Hey ... Known best for their interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque classical works, the Swingle Singers recorded this beautiful Christmas album in France ...