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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monder is a well-established New York musician whose adaptability has taken him from organist Jack McDuff’s band to David ...

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 ...

Terence Blanchard, will present the world-premiere full performance of Blanchard’s A Tale of God’s Will: A Requiem for ...

This is all the more interesting as the session was recorded at the historic Van ... Tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover has been having an impact on modern jazz since she was a tenor phenom coming out of ...

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

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 ...