Jazz guitar icon George Freeman passed away on April 1 at the age of 97. The celebrated musician had planned to mark his 98th birthday on April 10 with a series of concerts at Chi ...

The song is a heartfelt plea from one lover to ... including Roy Eldridge and Doc Cheatham on trumpets, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Lester Young on tenor saxophones, Gerry Mulligan on ...

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Playing the music of Duke Ellington, this visionary artist of the hip-hop generation crafted a magical set, sampling a scrap of this and scrap of that, interpreting the songs of the jazz legend ...

And new. To fill 12-inch LPs, record company A&R executives reached for the latest Broadway musicals and songs written by a new generation of show composers. [Photo of Carol and Coleman Hawkins at the ...

Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie ... Catherine St. West, 2nd floor), as well as at ... Twenty-song set contains the complete 1967 'Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos ...

Those who’ve covered the song range from Miles Davis to Chaka Khan. Tenor saxophone titan Coleman Hawkins invented the extended improvised solo on his 1939 instrumental recording of a ballad ...

The organ trio, like big bands, probably never completely went away. It’s an observation worth making perhaps, given what ...

A decade of trailblazing and trauma defined jazz pianist Earl “Bud” Powell’s life prior to recording “Piano Interpretations” ...

Between 1923 to 1933 Bessie recorded in excess of 150 songs for Columbia ... Johnson, saxophonist Coleman Hawkins and Louis Armstrong. In 1929 Smith recorded what some have referred to as her ...

It’s worth noting that tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins anticipated the improv aspect of bebop when he recorded the song “Body & Soul” in 1939, in which he briefly stated the main melody ...