Ahmad Jamal News

Director Douglas Chang and Executive Producer Ronald Tikofsky have announced the upcoming production of Chang's new feature, 'CHAOGRAPHY: Variations on the Theme of Freedom," in 2010.

Peerless players as its members are, it's hard to imagine the Nuttree Quartet's standards-rooted swing bending the ears of a non-buff audience.

Watching and hearing Dave Brubeck at the Dakota last week, I wondered if jazz is an elixir.

Bouchard, associate professor of writing at Berklee College of Music, contributes articles to AAJ, Downbeat, and writes columns on wines and nature.

May 2009 marks the release of jazz pianist and composer Tony Foster's debut trio recording entitled "In Between Moods". The recording features Joe Poole on drums and Russell Botten on bass.

Anguilla, the serene island paradise in the Caribbean, is just perhaps the perfect setting for a jazz festival.

Each week The Advocate asks a different "quiz taker" for his or her current favorites in pop culture.

Nine is the operative word for the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival - nine days, ninth year, nine stages indoors and out in Boston and Cambridge.

The New York Times photosJack DeJohnette plays Berklee; Kurt Rosenwinkel hits Regattabar.

"Nightscape" is the kind of piano trio set, were you hearing it live in a club, you could hang with all night.

"Nightscape" is the kind of piano trio set, were you hearing it live in a club, you could hang with all night.

The Great Bassist Jamil Nasser was recently given a party to honor his 77th Birthday.

Washington, D.C. - infoZine - For the second year, the National Endowment for the Arts will bring outstanding jazz musicians, writers, producers, and scholars to communities across the nation through NEA Jazz Masters Live.

The final days of the 2009 Umbria Jazz Festival were an extravaganza of sorts for lovers of the piano.

All About Jazz is celebrating Ahmad Jamal's birthday today! Ahmad Jamal In 1951, Mr.

Today's Birthdays: Country singer Marvin Rainwater is 84. Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos is 80.

Incorporated in 1996, The African American Jazz Preservation Society of Pittsburgh has conducted numerous oral history interviews and secured a collection of photographs and historical documents.

At a recent concert led by pianist Kirk Lightsey at New York's Jazz Standard, Billy Kilson played swinging standards and hushed ballads with a fire usually reserved for Cuban fusion or extreme jazz-rock. Displaying remarkable control, power, and dynamics, Kilson also performed with great sensitivity.

Another in the latter-day parade of tradition-respecting "young lions," Stephen Scott brings a formidable technique, some of Ahmad Jamal's locked-groove obsessions, and elements of Wynton Kelly, Bud Powell, and McCoy Tyner to his work.

Switching from Ahmad Jamal's disc It's Magic to Prince's latest, LOtUSFLOW3R, , may seem like a huge leap musically, but not so much.