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Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist Charlie Parker , during which the ever restless Eastwood got the idea to produce a feature-length film about pianist Thelonious Monk , released somewhat later during the same year as ...

Jazz is a Romance language. It relies as much, if not more, on music already played and pondered over than that being performed right now, much less germinating in a musician's mind for the future.

Aretha Franklin: giving the Queen of Soul her propers Singer Aretha Franklin performs during the 85th annual Christmas tree lighting at the New York Stock Exchange December 4, 2008.

Dr. J's writing combines her love of jazz with her fascination with psychology; she enjoys focusing on where they intersect -- in the celebration of the individual spirit.

Festival Miami concluded with a swinging party Friday that brought jazz greats John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton to the Miami's Gusman Concert Hall stage.

In past columns, I've written about many local bands who were just starting their careers, trying to find the time and money to begin touring.

The bassist Ben Williams took several long solos in his first set at the Jazz Gallery on Thursday night, and each one felt more like an entitlement than an indulgence.

For decades, saxophonist Nick Brignola was the jazzman in the Capital Region. The winner of several prestigious Downbeat magazine awards, he passed away in 2002.

I am known at work for having a esoteric taste in music. Sharing an office with four other people in close proximity, I carve out my own little niche in the maelstrom by playing music as much as possible.

Valient Thorr singer "Valient Himself" has been known to shower the audience with a little rock-juice, flicking it about when not actively belting colloquial, clever lyrics about government conspiracies and being from Venus.

THELONIOUS MONK / "Classic Monk Mixtape" Source: Breath of Life - " 01 Classic Monk Mixtape.mp3 What fierceness tender touched us whenever Monk made music.

Thelonious Monk was alternately viewed as a genius who introduced new ideas to jazz or a hack who simply couldn't play well.

Disc three of this collection of John Coltrane's recordings for Prestige as a sideman find him in familiar territory, recording with the pianist Red Garland, whom Coltrane would perform with on several occasions during his tenures with the Miles Davis Quintet.

The 5-CD Side Steps follows two other Prestige box sets-the 6-CD Fearless Leader and 5-CD Interplay -which together catalogue saxophonist John Coltrane's recordings for the label 1956-58. The three boxes, each packed with extraordinary music, chronicle on parallel paths the years during which Coltrane's revolutionary style began to emerge, but ...

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John Coltrane is a giant in the history of American music. He was a pioneer in developing a new sound in Jazz music with the use of modes and improvisation, and later was at the forefront of the Free Jazz movement.

Thelonious Monk, the great American jazz artist, during the first half of his junior year at Stuyvesant High School in New York, showed up in class only 16 out of 92 days and received zeros in every one of his subjects.

No figure in jazz history is as steeped in mystery and awe-inspired adjectives that, oddly, only serve to obscure the true, breathtaking scope of his work than Thelonious Monk.

The last time I got an "F" was on an algebra test in ninth grade. So when my beloved home built in 1915 failed its energy-efficiency test, I took it personally.

After wrapping up a run of shows opening for Mike Gordon in Burlington, VT., the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey traveled North of the border to perform in the upstairs concert hall of Montreal's La Sala Rossa.