The musicians on Naima, above, are Coltrane on tenor, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on base and Elvin Jones on drums. The folks at AllMusic do a nice...
Category - Jazz
The great drummer Art Blakey was born on Oct. 11, 1919 in Pittsburgh. Here his band — Art Blakey’s Jazz Messingers — plays Moanin’ in...
Without doubt, the most surprising thing I’ve learned during the seven or so months I’ve been doing this website is that Norah Jones is Ravi...
Moonglow is beautiful. If anyone knows the name of the second song on this clip, please let me know. Benny Goodman is, of course, one of the giants. As...
Jazz players and fans spoke about Art Tatum with the same awe that Hendrix or Clapton would elicit decades later. The feeling is best conveyed by quotes such...
Yesterday was the first full day of autumn. Great photos behind Billie Holiday.
Many folks reading this post know more about Miles Davis than I do. So it makes little sense for me to write anything about the second most important trumpet...
Dexter Gordon’s website sums up his importance in one line. He was, it says, “the first musician to translate the language of Bebop to the tenor...
People who know put Buddy Rich at or near the top of the list of jazz drummers. Two things are evident in this interesting interview from 1956: Both Rich and...
Wikipedia, as usual, sums it up nicely: Often regarded as the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the...
