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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today in Music History for April 18: ...

Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, which recently launched a $35 ...

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 ...

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 ...