The metal guitarist found rebirth and rejuvenation when he overheard a John Coltrane album being remastered in a nearby ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees had been missing their cool Jazz. Sidelined since April 29 by a strained right oblique, Jazz Chisholm Jr. drove Tanner Bibee's first pitch of the seventh ...

Lester Willis Young, or the "Prez," was a jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist ... He is credited with popularizing "cool" to describe something fashionable. He is rumored to have introduced "bread" ...

Cool jazz emerged in the late 1940s as a reaction ... It was heavily popularized by artists like Count Basie and Lester Young, who brought the city’s unique sound to national attention.

Jazz musicians are the innovative artists who ... Hawkins influenced generations of musicians with his innovative style. Lester Young, nicknamed Pres or Prez, has a lyrical style that contrasts ...

I’m glad you’re here to talk with us about it, about introducing young people to jazz ... And your brother Lester is an accomplished saxophonist and vocalist in the Toronto jazz and R&B scene. Tell us ...

His primary influence was the mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Getz rose to fame in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band and performed in bebop and cool jazz ensembles. João Gilberto ...

It documents the “cool jazz” movement and features innovative arrangements ... It features some of his most enduring compositions, including tributes to fellow jazz greats Lester Young and Duke ...

In jazz circles, cool first came to be associated with sax player Lester Young in the early 1940s. Mainstream publications like The New Yorker magazine reported in 1948, “The bebop people have a ...

I have a theory about jazz history: The conceptual breakthroughs ... translated that innovation into a broader format. When Lester Young came up with a new kind of melodic blues in the ‘30s ...

Present for the birth of bebop as a rapacious acolyte of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Davis the artist modulated into the creator of the calmer, lush indigo tones of cool jazz. Drugs ...

Born in Bonham, Texas, he took the electric guitar from the staccato rhythm swing style of Freddie Green to the more modern bebop and cool jazz sounds ... by saxophonist Lester Young – was ...