Flea shares the truth behind his forehead injury, talks about his solo jazz album Honora and shares a story about the time he ...

Flea's first musical love wasn't rock. It was jazz. The iconic bassist joins Christian McBride to talk about his debut solo ...

2024 has more than proven to be an intense political year as the country has faced the assassination attempt of one candidate and then the withdrawal of another just four months before the polls open ...

The Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Academy offers the organization an opportunity to create and introduce an even more robust music curriculum focused on the study of the genre’s history, musicianship, and ...

The first six tracks on this album, which were recorded at New York City's Town Hall on June 22, 1945, are amongst the most exciting in the jazz compendium. Not only because of their intrinsic ...

Jazz pianist, entrepreneur and promoter George Wein used this 1890s townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side as his offices and regularly played there with the likes of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie ...

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Dizzy Gillespie once said that he heard Roy Eldridge playing trumpet and uttered, "That's the job I want." Later, the two musicians were bitter... Dizzy Gillespie: 'Roy and Diz' [MUSIC] A.B. SPELLMAN, ...

"There is a lot of speculation about the 'origin and development of Be-pop harmonic improvisation.' Coming home from the superb Jazz Kitchen program presented by the Jared M.Thompson Ensemble, I ...

A concert at Town Hall this week that will be led by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra celebrates the legacies of Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Chico O’Farrill. By Ed Morales In the ...

Dizzy Gillespie in 1955. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-114443 I heard a version of this story from Bill some years ago ...