The last time I saw pianist Bill Charlap was in July at 92Y’s Jazz in July series in New...
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Count Basie fans tend to focus on his hard-driving “Super Chief” bands of the 1940s and his...
In 1946, the classically inclined arranger Ralph Burns brought a three-part neo-Impressionist suite to bandleader Woody Herman...
In his introduction to Learning to Listen, master vibraphonist Gary Burton offers readers the choice of absorbing his...
Playboy impresario Hugh Hefner, an important advocate for jazz through his magazine, festival, nightclubs, TV show, compilations and...
The saxophonist and bandleader Cannonball Adderley was not only an important and influential figure in the evolution...
