Eric Dolphy News

One of the great glories of the vintage vinyl LP was the compelling cover art that literally transfigured an album into an icon that you absolutely had to buy to enshrine in your collection at home.

The young British band will perform Out 'n' In: Inspired by Eric Dolphy at the Shire Hall.

In 1964, the great bassist and composer Charles Mingus toured Europe with what was probably the greatest band of his career.

Oscar Feldman is ready, with Oscar e Familia , to put his own stamp on the alto saxophone.

Pushing the depths of the experimental NYC funk and jazz music scene, New York City based Out To Lunch will be releasing its sophomore album, Melvin's Rockpile on the highly esteemed label Accurate Records on January 12, 2010.

In its sophomore year, EJJ has quickly garnered attention throughout Europe, and now the States, too, is taking notice.

In the short history of jazz-only about 110 years-the bass clarinet has had an even shorter existence.

Jazz-fusion giants unite to pay tribute to Tony Williams, one of the great jazz/fusion/rock drummers of any generation.

Empirical's eponymous debut album, a stew of fierce, mutated bop produced by saxophonist Courtney Pine for his own Destin-E label, created a bushfire of enthusiasm in the UK.

Bishop : trombone Corey Wilkes : flugelhorn Josh Berman : cornet Matt Bauder : bass clarinet, tenor saxophone Jeff Parker : guitar Jim Baker : piano, arp , pianette Jason Adasiewicz : vibraphone John McEntire : marimba, tubular bells Matthew Lux : bass guitar Jason Ajemian : acoustic bass Mike Reed : drums, percussion, saw John Herndon : drums ...

Not Two Records Guitarist Joe Morris continues his 2002 experimentation with the double-bass. On Fine Objects , he leads a trio of saxophone, bass, and drums through two of his own compositions, a couple of trio improvisations, and other compositions by Ornette Coleman , Eric Dolphy , Larry Clinton and Petr Cancura .

Varmint is the sophomore follow up to Rolldown , the self-titled debut of vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz's quintet.

Pianist Paul Giallorenzo locates the jazz he makes with his quintet somewhere in the early 1960s, when post-bop was getting ready to explode into free jazz and its pioneers were rooted in swing, but thinking outward thoughts.

Elena Gillespie is a graduate student in psychology and author with a research interest in the nature of communication in music, particularly improvisational jazz, and the phenomenology of music within human perception.

Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch! Blue Note / Music Matters 2009 Few jazz fans still need an introduction to reed player Eric Dolphy's 1964 masterpiece, Out to Lunch! . It's an album people tend to come to fairly early on in their love affair with the music , and serves as a meeting ground for a wide scope of fans, be they stalwarts of bop, avant-garde, ...

EMPIRICAL burst on the mid-decade London jazz scene with a major splash, and picked up several album of the year citations for their eponymous debut on Courtney Pine's Destin-E label in 2007.

One of the most iconic players from the European free-music scene, Han Bennink's 50 plus year career has seen the Dutch master drummer traverse through a multitude of musical settings.

Earlier this year, we posted a fun jazz feature called " The First Five: One Man's Introduction To Jazz.

Tribute and repertory bands are jazz festival staples, but too many of the wrong kind can blur the music's fundamentally progressive spirit with hazy nostalgia and freeze-dried history.

The Detroit International Jazz Festival celebrates its 30th Labor Day weekend with a tagline of "Keepin' Up With the Joneses" and a theme of jazz families.