Leaving a towering body of work behind him, record engineer Rudy Van Gelder worked on some of the most acclaimed modern jazz ...

When Roy Haynes sat down at the tiny kit on the stage of the Everyman Theatre, during the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival in 2005, he shook his head ruefully and said, "Man, I feel like a midget!" Rising ...

Billie's Bounce; It Never Entered My Mind; My Funny Valentine; Summertime; Desafinado; This Can't Be Love; Nardis; Someday My Prince Will Come; Stella By Starlight; How My Heart Sings; Straight No ...

What do you mean? GIOIA: You've gotta realize that when Dave Brubeck began forming a modern jazz movement in Northern California, this was a radical departure for the area. There had been a very ...

For Brad Mehldau's performance in Lorraine for the Nancy Jazz Pulsations festival, the piano virtuoso is accompanied by a ...

Roy Haynes was one of the last giants of modern jazz who was present at its birth. His eight decades of drumming spanned from the swing and bebop eras to the avant-garde. Haynes played with just ...

Billie Holiday was peerless when it came to conveying the emotion in a song In the 1940s, the swing era gave way to what was then known as “modern jazz” – the so-called bebop innovations of ...

Metheny even called Hall “the father of modern jazz guitar”. Jim’s harmonic awareness, rhythmic placement and dynamic sensitivity are what sets him apart. His playing on the Sonny Rollins ...

Haynes influenced generations of drummers and helped change the direction of jazz improvisation. Roy Haynes, pioneering modern jazz drummer, has died at 99 Roy Haynes, the pioneering jazz drummer ...