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Clean Feed Records Recorded at the 2001 edition of the long-running New York concert series, Live at Vision Festival VI showcases the top-notch Trio Viriditas, featuring reedsman/trumpeter Alfred Harth , ...

Jimi Hendrix, This Flyer Said to be recorded at Jimi's house at Traver Hollow Road near Shokan, NY in 1969 .

At just 29 years of age, Corey Wilkes has emerged as the next big thing in the trumpet world.

Standing before a specially assembled band for his July 10th show at The Living Theatre, Steven Bernstein spoke freely about his early days in New York.

There are few musicians who qualify as "on the scene" more than Corey Wilkes -- wherever the young trumpeter is, you can be sure there's a party close by.

James Carter arrived in a big way in the early 1990s, a multi- instrumentalist who attacked old jazz tunes as if he owned them, with a braggadocio that mirrored his phenomenally flashy technique.

The idea to put a group of jazz musicians together for a week or so to see what they come up with in the way of new compositions first gained popularity in New York's so-called loft scene in the early 1970s.

OVER 30 YEARS ago the Art Ensemble of Chicago blew up out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians , tempering the fury of free jazz with an approach that incorporated the nuances of space ...

Delmark New Releases Corey Wilkes Drop It Jazz trumpeter Corey Wilkes burst on the Chicago jazz scene in 2002.

Ari Brown - Published: April 27, 2008 Ari Brown has deep-running roots and, though in the past he's been associated with the likes of Lester Bowie, the music on this DVD is more straight ahead than his ... via All About Jazz

An introductory piece on the Art Ensemble of Chicago . Some funk from the quintet. via MetaFilter

“Every one of them started out at the bottom - maybe not the flat bottom, but pretty close.”

Four letters that changed music: AACM. From the South Side of Chicago to the boulevards of Paris to the townships of South Africa, that acronym long has been synonymous with fearless, genre-defying ways of ... via Chicago Tribune