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Clearwater Hot Club comes back swingin' It's only been a year since "Some of These Days," but Grand Rapids' pre-eminent jazz outfit is back with a new album.

Drummer Roy Haynes, 83, has worked with pretty much everyone who's ever been anyone in the evolution of jazz - from Lester Young in the 1940s, through Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane ...

Sequels are all too common in movies-so much so that rather than have distinctive titles, many simply add a sequential number to the original name.

No doubt most of the people buying this box know that the music it contains is necessary to any serious jazz collection .

O nce upon a time, in deep Southside Chicago - past the railroad tracks, past old Comiskey Park and just past Washington Park - one could find an opulent, 200-room building called the Pershing Hotel.

The Gordon Jazz Ensemble will perform a program of jazz standards, big band favorites, funk and rock tunes Saturday, during an outdoor homecoming concert on the Wenham college's campus.

At a recent dinner party my wife and I hosted our guests brought wine and flowers and the music for the evening was provided by the shared taste of millions of iTunes users.

The word swing means two things when discussing big band jazz. It refers to the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s, when big band swing music was the popular music of the day.

Duke Ellington, Max Roach and Charles Mingus on the cover of Money Jungle . WBGO, September 2, 2008 - September means a lot of things to a lot of people: It's a time to reflect on the summer that was.

All About Jazz has re-launched its contest feature giving MY AAJ members an opportunity to win quality jazz products.

That great jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, who gave us some of the finest jazz recordings ever, in collaboration with saxophonist Lester Young, once counseled us about money: "Money, you've got lots of friends, ...

The Blue Morris Band brings its unique sound to the park Friday evening The Blue Morris Band swings into the Envision Twilight Concert Series at Fraser River Heritage Park on Aug.

Trumpet Virtuoso/Singer/Comedian/Actor - Jack Sheldon's importance to the entertainment industry has been a constant throughout his career spanning from the 1940s to the present ... and from bebop to ...

This is the sort of expansive collection that in years past could have only been issued by the Smithsonian.

"Here were the children of the American bop night," Jack Kerouac wrote in his 1957 novel On the Road , which, like many of Kerouac's other writings, celebrated and invoked the music of Charlie Parker, Lester ...

Blue Jack Jazz Along with the saxophonists Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh and guitarist Billy Bauer, pianist Sal Mosca was among the first wave of musicians to construct a personal style within the school of Lennie ...

Why the tenor sax and not the piano or the drums, instruments that have catapulted uncounted Chicagoans to musical glory? For starters, the seminal jazz tenorist Bud Freeman was a Chicagoan .

The End of the Jews By Adam Mansbach Spiegel & Grau 320 pages; $23.95 The End of the Jews - a multigenerational family drama that probes the bounds between human relationships and artistic devotion - begins in ...

The Detroit Tenors featuring saxophonists Steve Wood and Carl Cafagna will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 19 at the Village Festival Plaza, City of Grosse Pointe.

Critics review the lifetime achievement celebration of Kidd Jordan in the New York Press , New York Sun and New York Times .