jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve never heard. Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson and pianist McCoy Tyner. Sometime in the late 1960s or early ’70s, Lee Morgan bought his girlfriend ...

On early recordings, he occasionally played traditional B-flat soprano clarinet. His improvisational ... Eric Allan Dolphy was a jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet.

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of ...

Its early coverage of jazz reflected both tendencies, signaling an openness to the emerging form even as it offered a rather patronizing take on the music’s significance. “There are times ...

Award-winning jazz bassist, educator and mentor Hayden, at age 68, is today the youngest recipient of Detroit’s highest arts ...

Tickets are on sale for the for the Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival, scheduled for April 3 to 6 in Durango. Ragtime and classic jazz musicians from around the United States will descend on ...