“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 ...

He's been at the forefront of contemporary jazz for over 40 years. He played with a number of bop groups in New York during the 1940s with quintets led by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Later, a ...

WHAT: "Kind of Blue: Celebrating the Music of Miles Davis," the opening concert of Jazz Roots 2025-2026 featuring Ambrose ...

Sheila Jordan, who has died aged 96, was an acclaimed jazz singer and much-loved teacher who cut her teeth in the Bebop scene as it emerged in New York in the late 1940s; the first singer to have an ...

There was a time in the post-World War II era when William Clarence “Billy” Eckstine (1914 – 1993) was, for millions of fans and peers around the world, one of the most influential singers and ...

The ironic thing about bebop is that when this style of jazz was introduced and presented to the general public in the mid-1940s, it was widely regarded by the music industry as the most esoteric ...

The Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra (SSJO) will open its 2024-2025 season honoring the music of two genre giants with a play on one of William Shakespeare’s famous phrases: “To Be or Not to Bop: ...

Graduate students today fall squarely in the millennial generation, which means we’re steeped in hipster culture. Readers of a certain age may still associate hipsters with aficionados of 1940s bebop.

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 ...

During the two decades that followed the end of World War II in 1945, independent record labels flourished. Many of these micro labels succeeded by specializing in specific types of music that the ...