Dizzy Gillespie News

HACKETTSTOWN -- The Carrie Jackson Sextet will perform at the Centenary Theater, 400 Jefferson St., at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti believes that having worked with pop performers such as Sting has given him an appreciation for showmanship and helped his career.

Epithets like "living legend" are often bandied about more for the purpose of hype than as a true reflection of some personality's true value to his or her particular profession and to the public in general.

Internationally acclaimed jazz diva Barbara Morrison comes to the Levitt Pavilion Sunday as part of a summer-long series of free concerts under the stars Wednesday through Sunday nights at the amphitheatre in Pasadena's Memorial Park.

When Joe McQueen turned 90 a few weeks ago, the saxophone legend got his share of publicity.

Saxophonist Phil Woods and drummer Charli Persip had met at jazz events, but really got to know each other in 1956 when they went on tour to the Middle East and South America with the Dizzy Gillespie Band.

Active and influential for more than six decades and still going strong, NEA Jazz Master Award recipient James Moody is a true master of the jazz saxophone and flute.

James Moody seems intent on making Dizzy Gillespie look wise in his judgment. "Dizzy Gillespie once said, 'Moody, you're going to live until you're 125,'" Moody, 84, says with a laugh.

J.D. Considine Montreal - From Tuesday's Globe and Mail, Monday, Jun. 22, 2009 05:04PM EDT M ake no mistake the Festival International de Jazz de Montral can be a daunting experience.

Grammy-winning British singer Estelle will replace Lauryn Hill as the headline act at this year's Stockholm Jazz Festival.

Music producer, author, photographer and former CIA agent, Hank O'Neal has plenty of experiences from which to draw inspiration.

A woman answered the door wearing a simple house dress and an apron. "First I thought, This is the maid," says photographer Herman Leonard.

NEWARK a ' The family of a jazz guitarist from New Jersey who was killed in the crash of a commuter plane near Buffalo, N.Y., in February has sued Continental Airlines and the flight's operator.

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center's Frances Forte, MD, was a recent recipient of the Medicine for Music Award at the Jazz Foundation of America's 20th Anniversary Gala.

In the setting of an ordinary British pub, on an ordinary street corner in North London, an extraordinary musical event has been taking place.

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

Track That's Earl Brother Artist/Band Roni Ben-Hur & Gene Bertoncini Duration 04:22 Album Jazz Therapy Volume 1 Record Label Motema Description Master guitarists Gene Bertoncini and Roni Ben-Hurs new CD Smile is the first in Motema's new Jazz Therapy series of charitable fund raising CDs produced in association with the Jazz Foundation of America.

BYRDSTOWN, Tenn. - He's considered the father of modern jazz drumming, so how did Max Roach's stuff end up in a barn in Byrdstown, Tenn.? He was a legend who hung out with legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, to name a few.

Named " best jazz pianist of his generation " in Time Magazine, Cyrus Chestnut is known for his imaginative, inventive style and his profound sense of the history and language of Jazz.

Jackson Pollock , the Abstract Expressionist American painter best known for his "drip paintings" produced from 1947 to 1950, loved and was inspired by jazz.