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Emerging from the shadow of his hero Charlie Parker, Miles Davis rejected the aggressive tempo of bebop to pioneer a smoother style that became a landmark in jazz evolution Cool-headed ... Miles Davis circa 1950.

Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist Charlie Parker , during which the ever restless Eastwood got the idea to produce a feature-length film about pianist Thelonious Monk , released somewhat later during the same year as ...

Not long ago a veteran Chicago jazz disc jockey played a track from a female vocalist's new CD only after complaining on the air about the seemingly unending stream of new recordings by female singers sent to his notice each week.

Everyone from Fred Astaire to Charlie Parker has performed the music of Cole Porter.

Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Ghostface Killah, Dan Deacon, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, and more Music Picks archives>> Ghostface Killah thursday29 PEEPING TOM On its superb debut album, File Under: Bebop , this clever French-Swedish trio transforms classic tunes by the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell ...

"The rhythm section is the essence of every style of music," the late Max Roach told me back in 1992.

Jazz great John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was born on Oct. 21, 1917, in Cheraw, S.C., and settled in Englewood in the mid-1960s, where he lived until his death in 1993.

I wish I could play like Art Tatum's right hand. Charlie Parker On Art Tatum's 100th birthday last Tuesday, October 13, Rene, an elephant at the Toledo, Ohio Zoo, painted a piano in honor of the city's native son.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally appeared July 28, 1996. It was like stumbling upon a lost Rembrandt in the attic.

Best known for conquering the pop and R&B charts in the 1970s with such hits as "Give Me the Night," "On Broadway" and "This Masquerade," guitarist and vocalist George Benson started his career firmly planted in the world of jazz while working with legends like Jack McDuff and Miles Davis.

For nearly 17 years now, Dizzy Gillespie has been living up to his signature tune, "Groovin' High." Or maybe I should say he's groovin' on high -- in heaven.

October 19, 2009 from WBGO - There are thousands of apple varieties - even a new conventional breed called " Jazz ." Much like the music which lends its name to this autumn delight, Jazz is a hybrid .

A variety of musical styles and talents will take the stage this month for Angelina College's Fall Concert featuring the AC Swinging Roadrunner Jazz Band, the AC Concert Band and the Lufkin Community Band.

Forest Whitaker has had a varied career, one that has seen him playing characters as diverse as a legendary jazz man and an African dictator.

Billy Eckstine was not only the greatest jazz-crooning hit-maker of his era; he was also one of the first African American sex symbols and a bandleader who scouted Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Sarah Vaughan.

The Nashville Jazz Orchestra celebrates a vital but often overlooked part of the improvisational strain, the large group tradition.

Miles Davis's first great record as a leader came when he was very young, just 23 years of age.

For some, the saxophone is the sound of jazz. The unique fusion of brass and woodwind that is the sax found an electrifying vibrato in the hands of jazzmen that truly changed the world.

George Russell, who died earlier this year, freed jazz in the 1950s when he discovered "a new way to relate to chords." His Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization yielded both the modal jazz of Miles Davis and the free jazz of John Coltrane, but Russell's own compositions were nothing to sneeze at, either.

Woody has been a jazz fan for about 30 years, starting with the diverse sounds of Maynard Ferguson's bands of the 1970s.