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This album, recorded live in 1955, shows several facets of Charles Mingus's greatness and originality as a bassist, bandleader, composer and arranger.

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.

The Legendary Drummer Billy Cobham's new CD Palindrome is set to be released at the beginning of 2010.

It's almost midnight in Sweden, and the 72-year-old jazz legend Reggie Workman is back at his hotel after the night's concert - with an 5am wake-up call in the morning.

"The rhythm section is the essence of every style of music," the late Max Roach told me back in 1992.

Charles Tolliver leads a modernist 16 piece big band that pushes the envelope of contemporary orchestral jazz sounds.

In the eight years following his release from a mental hospital in 1947, Parker produced a great deal of astonishing jazz A period of creative intensity ... Charlie Parker in 1952.

Lesa Terry has a band at LACMA on Friday, and she plays a terrific jazz violin. You might remember her from the Uptown String Quartet , which Max Roach paired with his own quartet to make some amazing music back in the '80s. For some reason, most people don't much think of the violin as a jazz instrument, believing that any ax that ain't part of ...

"We prize individuality," states pianist Connie Crothers emphatically of New Artists Records.

Sonny Rollins has been called the greatest living jazz improviser, and anyone who's heard the tenor saxophonist would be hard put to disagree.

Recorded live in concert at the Willisau Jazz Festival on August 30, 1979, The Long March documents another of drummer Max Roach 's historic duo collaborations with the leaders of the jazz avant-garde. This stellar date with tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp follows Streams of Consciousness , with pianist Abdullah Ibrahim , and Birth and Rebirth , ...

New CD Release, Tales from the Earth featuring: Mark Weinstein: concert, alto and bass flutes; Omar Sosa: vibraphone, marimba, piano, percussion; Jean Paul Bourelly: guitar; Aly Keita: balafon; Marque Gilmore: drums; Stan Michalak: bass; Aho Luc Nicaise: lead vocals, percussion; Mathias Agbokou: vocals, percussion.

Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White are scheduled to perform on Saturday, September 12.

Philology Jazz Records The idea of playing free within a set of modes or changes is certainly nothing new in the world of creative music, but it can still be striking when a musician talks about following in the footsteps of Charlie Parker or Max Roach as such.

Irving Stanley "Duke" Jordan, pianist in legendary altoist Charlie Parker 's classic quintet, recorded this solo album late in life.

Why are so many good jazz gigs led by drummers these days? Possibly it's just labor logic: the star system has broken down, the circuit has shrunk and there are fewer high-profile working bands led by great front-line soloists - saxophonists, trumpeters, guitarists.

SOURCE: Kim Smith Public Relations "Others grew by inches 'Trane grew by yards. I use that as an example." Dr.

SOURCE: Kim Smith Public Relations "Others grew by inches 'Trane grew by yards. I use that as an example." Dr.

Sharp Nine Records Here's a refreshing take on Ellingtonia, one that doesn't rely on the overdone or easy .

Famous for his participation in Max Roach's percussionist band, M'Boom, drummer/vibraphonist Warren Smith has demonstrated with finesse how an approach stimulated by rhythm can become the impetus for larger ensemble music.