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Joel Roberts has been contirbuting to AAJ since its earliest days and is currently a staff writer for AAJ-New York.

Interview: Ray Santos For years, Latin-jazz has been ignored or unduly dismissed as repetitive novelty music by jazz fans who should know better.

Tenor saxophonist, composer, teacher-- Jimmy Heath has been a professional musician for over 60 years.

Bebop was considered a radical departure for jazz music during its formation in the 1940s and 1950s, pioneered by drummer Max Roach , Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie among others.

Jazz piano prodigy Christian Sands is just 20, but he's already played on two Grammy Award shows and at Jazz at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. On Saturday, he opens the jazz-heavy, all-star 2009-10 season of the intimate Easton Piano Loft, celebrating its fifth year in the restored 1857 row home of music promoters Jim and Genevieve Luce at ...

Universal Music Australia has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with the US based Savoy Label Group which includes Denon Classics, SLG Records, 429 Records and Savoy Jazz.

Universal Music Australia has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with the US based Savoy Label Group which includes Denon Classics, SLG Records, 429 Records and Savoy Jazz.

DID the Beat Generation ever reach Wales? Can anyone remember what that generation even was? Jack Kerouac holding his thumb out and hitchhiking across America.

The jazz musician Charlie Mariano has died aged 85. The American, who was a long-time resident of the western German city of Cologne, worked with jazz greats such as Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

SOURCE: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey Stan Kenton could be grandiose in his music. Otherwise, for the most part, he was down to earth.

The New York Jazz Workshop announces the creation of a new structure to provide affordable Jazz education in New York City.