Jazz

I saw Birdman this afternoon and was enthralled from beginning to end by the movie’s screenplay, cinematography, score, and cast. I’d noticed the name Antonio Sanchez in the composer...

Bob Belden, who died on May 20 (click here for the New York Times obituary), worked in a wide variety of settings as a saxophonist, arranger, producer, and a&r executive over the course of...

Bob Brookmeyer was hardly the first person to belie F. Scott Fitzgerald’s dictum, “There are no second acts in American lives,” but he’s one of the few jazz musicians to have survived the ravages of alcoholism...

The great bassist Bob Cranshaw died on Wednesday, November 2, 2016, at age 83 after a prolonged battle with cancer. Like Sonny Rollins, with whom he played for over 50 years, Melbourne “Bob”...

Northampton’s Jazz Workshop got a lift last night from saxophonist Bob Wilber and his wife Pug Horton, the English-born singer, who are in the area this week visiting family and friends.  Bob also...

Bobby Hutcherson died on Monday, August 15 at his home in Montara, California. He was 75 and had battled emphysema for several years. McCoy Tyner was one of Bobby’s most frequent collaborators. Beginning...

Randy Weston has no end of praise for Booker Ervin. Weston’s tonal portrait of his mother, “Portrait of Vivian,” was introduced on his 1963 recording, African Cookbook. He says that “only...

Wow! Here’s rare footage of trumpeter Booker Little with the Max Roach Quintet on the Stars of Jazz television show in 1958. The show was produced at the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles shortly after the...

Wow! Here’s rare footage of trumpeter Booker Little with the Max Roach Quintet on the Stars of Jazz television show in 1958. The show was produced at the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles shortly after the...

The Piano Genius in Paris and Copenhagen You may be in the mood on this first day of summer for something less white heat than what Bud Powell’s playing typically brings to mind, in which case be sure...