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In Michael Ondaatje's wonderful novel "Divisadero," the jazz of Thelonious Monk is likened to "imprisoned birdsongs." Leave it to a superb novelist to distill the indescribable, but many others have felt likewise.

Bob Brookmeyer is a legendary top-valve trombone musician and A-list jazz arranger.

Photographer W. Eugene Smith moved into a loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, in the heart of New Yorka TMs Flower District, in 1957.

Chick Corea is used to being a hard act to follow, but not when he shares a double-bill with Bela Fleck.

Toward the end of his life, pianist Bill Evans ' image was the exact opposite of the button-down, bespectacled young square who first burst onto the jazz scene in 1956 as the rising young lion on the jazz circuit who landed into history as the piano player for Miles Davis' 1958 masterwork Kind of Blue .

Tonight 11/17/09 on the Kitchen Sink, after some preview music for Stanton Moore's James Black gig at Chickie Wah Wah and Loyola, Neko Case, and Dan Auerbach/Justin Townes Earle, we'll put on a bale of jazz from 1959, possibly the greatest year of recorded music ever.

Chuck Israels' sideman duties make for impressive reading. Most jazz bass players would give their eye teeth to have chalked up anchor roles with the likes of pianist Bill Evans, saxophonist John Coltrane, pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Stan Getz and diva Billie Holiday.

November 13, 2009, 6:46 AM / Go single- or bring a friend Enjoy the pounding rhythms of dancing feet when top tap dance artist Bill Evans comes to the Alt Theatre at 255 Great Arrow Ave.

A novice bassist at 17, a professional bassist at 18, sideman to legendary trumpeter Chet Baker at 20, sideman to legendary pianist Bill Evans at 23, dead in a car wreck at 25: Scott LaFaro became and remains one of the greatest and saddest stories in the history of jazz.

In Manhattan in the late 1950s, it was great to be young and a jazz fan. The drinking age in New York state was 18, so a college student with a draft card and the price of a couple of beers could sit at the bar of a club and catch a full evening of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, or other greats.

Pianist John Horler has played with American greats like Chet Baker, Zoot Simms, Al Cohn and Bob Brookmeyer, and was a founder member of the wonderful Acoustic Triangle, writes Chris Beggs .

Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85.

American Matthew Shipp is a good fit for the festival, pursuing a doggedly solo career.

Admission: $18; $8 for students. Location: Workshops are free at Frick Fine Arts Building, Schenley Drive Details: 412-394-3353 Bob Karlovits can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7852. For guitarist Yotam Silberstein, appearing at the Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert is simply an event he cannot pass up.

Pianist Hod O'Brien and vocalist Stephanie Nakasian are performing from 7 to 11 p.m. today at the Deer Head Inn.

Tap, ballet, bolero, rumba, hip hop, modern, jazz and flamenco - the University Dance Company's fall concert features a cornucopia of dance forms in works by award-winning guest choreographer Bill Evans and University of Kansas dance faculty.

Author, photographer and radio host Dennis Owsley will teach another series of jazz history classes beginning at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 5 at the Ethical Society of St.

The bluegrass that Bill Evans plays isn't your grandma's bluegrass. It isn't even your mama's blue-grass - it's Bill Evans' bluegrass, and that means it's a class unto its own.

Bridging the Brooklyn-Reykjavik jazz divide with European elegance and a fiery, New York drive.

The Eastside Jazz Club will present its annual Jazz Extravaganza concert Sunday, Oct.