In the summer of 2007, three Lehigh Valley jazz musicians — pianist Skip Wilkins, drummer Gary Rissmiller and alto saxophonist Neil Wetzel — were invited to teach and perform at the Kar… ...

Freddie Hubbard, widely regarded as the most gifted jazz trumpeter of the post-bebop '60s and '70s, died Monday at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Los Angeles.

Cedar Walton has been one of the big names in jazz piano, having started near the beginning of the second wave of the jazz era, after swing and big band gave way to bebop and a new emphasis on ...

Miles Davis' publishing catalog, recorded music rights and other rights have been acquired by Reservoir Media.

In this climate, where does tradition fit in? Sure, it may be something underfoot, but what about directly engaging it through hard bop or standards? Why deal with an older model of swing" when the ...

Multi-Genre Singer/Songwriter G. Thomas Allen Takes Rank In The Modern Post-Bop/Jazz Space With His Self-Titled Debut Album. Drops July 3, 2020!

Jazz Epistle – Verse 1 is a foundational document of South African jazz's rich tradition. Because the post-bop played by the Epistles — featuring two future giants, the-20 year-old Masekela on trumpet ...

The drummer Pete La Roca, a top freelance drummer during New York's post-bop heyday in the 1950s and '60s, died early this morning in New York. The cause was lung cancer, according to Randa ...

Tyler Stovall describes Arthur Briggs’ role during World War II in the Montmartre jazz scene, the role of jazz during and after the war, and the origins of Bebop. Tyler Stovall: Arthur Briggs ...