Bebop -- Hard bop begins -- A new mainstream -- The scene -- The lyricists -- Tenors and organs -- The power of badness -- Hard bop heterodoxy : Monk, Mingus, Miles, and Trane -- Changes -- The last ...

This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 1998. When trying to investigate jazz, all the classifications and categories can be a bit confusing. What do they mean when they say ...

Bebop officially emerged in 1945 when Dizzy Gillsepie recorded Be-Bop (also known as Dizzy's Fingers). The jazz press didn't start using the term until 1946 to define an entire genre of emerging music ...

The opening bars to his "Song for My Father" was used by Steely Dan for their hit, "Rikki Don’t Lost That Number." By Phil Gallo Horace Silver Obit - P 2014 Jazz pianist Horace Silver, a progenitor of ...

Bebop and smooth jazz have about as much in common as punk and progressive rock. Bop, the frenetic style of jazz popularized in the 1940s, features fast tempos, complex chord progressions and rapid ...

“Lou Donaldson DSC0004a” by Marek Lazarski is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. On Saturday, Nov. 9, the jazz world lost a legend with the passing of Lou Donaldson. Donaldson was a bebop mainstay, a ...

As the lights dimmed in Bonn Studio Theater on Thursday night, the rhythmic pulse of jazz music filled the room to signal the start of Boston College bOp!’s Coffee House performance. Like a late-night ...

Curtis Fuller, an acclaimed jazz trombonist who was a key contributor to the bluesy hard-bop style of the 1950s and 1960s and who was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, died ...

From 1998 to 2004, Birth, a Cleveland/New York-based saxophone, electric bass and drums trio, received attention and praise from some of the leading voices of the avant-garde jazz and creative music ...

nine comic book-inspired pieces by Maryland-based composer, arranger and educator Stephen Philip, a composer who’s originally from Rochester, PA. “Smash! has been my passion project since moving to ...

The Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra (SSJO) will open its 2024-2025 season honoring the music of two genre giants with a play on one of William Shakespeare’s famous phrases: “To Be or Not to Bop: ...

Follow the musical journey of this often overlooked, but totally musical genius. Through the testimonials of family, friends and devoted fellow musicians of all ages, Wham-Re-Bop-Boom-Bam: The Swing ...