Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Davis - Credit: Paul CHARBIT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Richard Davis, the prolific bassist who adorned jazz classics by ...
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine and Primus are not the bands a Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist, composer and band leader usually cites as key early influences. But there is nothing ...
Christian McBride has spent more than three decades proving that the bass is not simply an instrument that supports the music. In his hands, the bass leads, speaks, swings, teaches and commands ...
Art Davis, a virtuoso bassist who excelled in classical music and jazz, and who became a clinical psychologist later in life, died July 29 of a heart attack at his home in Long Beach, Calif. He was 73 ...
Music pours out of Matt Ulery. Since moving to Chicago 25 years ago, the Rockford-born bassist, 43, has put out 15 albums of originals, a body of work that defies generalization. He’s composed for ...
Oh took the fast track to jazz prominence, emerging on the scene in the 2000s and becoming the bass player in bands led by Pat Metheny and Vijay Iyer. Her new album is a look back at her early work.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival continues to leak its summer lineup, and the newest addition is The Wooten Brothers — a ...
Ed Gordon talks with legendary bassist Stanley Clarke about his accomplished career and his summer tour "Trio," which includes two other music masters, jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and banjo player ...
Jazz bassist Morris Edwards died at 81 years old from a stroke in Manhattan on Sunday, May 27th, 2007. Morris Edwards played with many jazz greats like Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, ...
You were born in Brooklyn and grew up in Jamaica, Queens. What’s the nearest subway stop to where you were raised? The nearest subway is 169 th Street. Well, now it’s called Parsons Boulevard. It’s ...
In the analogue age, it would have been hard for a musician as omni-dimensional as Chicago’s Andrew Vogt to build a credible profile embracing the sweep of genres in which he is active. Back then, ...
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