Like John Coltrane before him, Wayne Shorter was a key figure in popularizing the soprano saxophone, an instrument equally suited to carrying a melody as
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From the mid-1960s to the early ’70s, Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 specialized in a hugely successful strand of bossa nova-informed sophisti-pop. Their signature sound,
What American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald described as the Jazz Age coincided with the demise of silent movies and the birth of talking pictures in
The second of two albums compiled from recordings made at the celebrated New York jazz club Village Vanguard, State Of The Tenor: Live At The
Tribute albums have been inspiring musicians and delighting fans for decades. In 1950, only a couple of years after the first 33rpm LPs were made,
For most of the citizens in the Bay Area city of Palo Alto, October 27, 1968, may have seemed just like another Sunday, but at
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie didn’t just co-lead a musical revolution. He did it with style. While alto saxophonist Charlie Parker was said to perform “as though
There was a time when Anita O’Day’s name was synonymous with scandal. Thanks to drug busts and resulting jail time, the jazz singer was dubbed
In July 1948, Lionel Hampton’s Orchestra was on tour across America. Traveling with them was a young 25-year-old guitarist who was beginning to make a
Trumpeter and flugelhorn player Eddie Henderson first caught the attention of jazz listeners as a dulcet Miles-esque presence within Herbie Hancock’s boldly progressive early ’70s