With Canadian summer jazz festivals featuring everything from the gospel sounds of The Sojourners and straight-ahead jazz saxophonist David Sanborn to Nigerian superstar King Sunny Ade & His African ...

Jazz always has embraced the sounds of far-flung cultures, from the French and Spanish influences in music of Jelly Roll Morton to the Afro-Caribbean experiments of Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo to ...

Dave Liebman: Placing Free Jazz and the Avant Garde in Musical and Historical Perspective article by Victor L. Schermer, published on February 22, 2021 at All About Jazz. Find more Interview articles ...

The other day, I was watching an old video of the great Carmen McRae in which she was asked the hoary question, “What is a jazz singer?” Jazz singers, said McRae, make a song their own by rephrasing ...

Jazz is upon us everywhere. To deny the fact is to assume the classic ostrich pose, head buried in the sand, tail-feathers to the sun. To shout alarm hysterically from the housetops, is to exhibit ...

The roots of bebop were formed in the nineteen-thirties, when Thelonious Monk was playing largely in private in New York, Dizzy Gillespie was shaking up the Cab Calloway trumpet section, Kenny Clarke ...

Blue Note president Don Was says, “In preparing these hi def remasters, we were very conscientious about maintaining the feel of the original releases while adding a previously unattainable ...

It’s bossa nova and samba, but so much more — funky, soulful and esoteric. Listen to these songs chosen by Joyce Moreno, Marcos Valle, Amaro Freitas and more lovers of Brazilian rhythms. Credit ...