Trumpeter and composer Miles Davis, the music explorer who revolutionized jazz, is even known by people who never heard his music.
Miles Davis, Cool Jazz, Nefertiti & Pharaoh’s Dance
Posted May 7th, 2011 at 4:29 pm (UTC+0)
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Jon Metzger: Vibist, Composer, Educator and Jazz Ambassador
Posted April 27th, 2011 at 5:33 pm (UTC+0)
Ask any Jon Metzger fan and they’ll tell you his music appeals to the heart. The majority of his compositions are relaxing
Yellowjackets, A ‘Timeline’ of Great Music
Posted April 22nd, 2011 at 6:51 pm (UTC+0)
Yellowjackets: celebrating 30 years of achievements as one of the premiere jazz fusion/smooth jazz groups of our time
Jazz & Classical Mix with Dutch Saxophonist Aart van Bergen
Posted April 13th, 2011 at 5:21 pm (UTC+0)
Mixing jazz with classical music is a tough job when it comes to improvisation. But Aart van Bergen and his Crescent Double Quartet are up to the challenge.
It’s Jazz Appreciation Month Worldwide
Posted April 8th, 2011 at 2:43 pm (UTC+0)
It’s April, when jazz music fills the air in Washington, D.C. This year’s 10th anniversary coincides with Latin jazz master Candido Camero’s 90th birthday
Music When You Want It: Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz
Posted March 24th, 2011 at 1:57 pm (UTC+0)
It was in 1959 when famed American Alto Saxophonist Ornette Coleman walked into a Los Angeles studio and pioneered a new form of Jazz
Using Music to Appeal for Help for Japan’s Quake & Tsunami Victims
Posted March 16th, 2011 at 10:23 pm (UTC+0)
Using jazz music for help: The name of the song, One Wish, is telling, and the simple message is: Japan needs your help
Birdland in the Big Apple, New York
Posted March 3rd, 2011 at 8:11 pm (UTC+0)
Anytime I hear the word “Birdland,” I get nostalgic about Midtown Manhattan’s nightlife, specifically the Birdland Jazz Club, where fabulous music was once performed by legends
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