In 1962, Davis began working with tenor saxophonist George Coleman, a player from Memphis who had already made a name for himself with Max Roach, Lee Morgan, and Jimmy Smith, among others. He was a ...

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The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been ...

Kenny Barron, revered as the best jazz pianist around, is a perfect gentleman and a master of “cool” – a quality once ...

Publisher Elinor "Ely" Tatum Sign up A Grammy-nominated harpist, Younger made history as the first Black female solo artist ... to compose a drum suite adaptation of the Negro spiritual “Singin’ Wid a ...

Roy Haynes, the pioneering jazz drummer who performed with legends like Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Sarah Vaughan, died ...

The legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes challenged the idea that a percussionist's primary function was to keep time.