Jazz

Bud Powell Today is Bud Powell’s 93rd birthday anniversary. In this 21st century moment in which police brutality and shootings of African Americans have become matters of national outrage and...

Jelly Roll Morton Jelly Roll Morton immortalized the most mythical of New Orleans jazz pioneers in his composition, “I Thought i Heard Buddy Bolden Say.” He recorded it twice in 1939, first...

One of the great things about having had access to Boston nightclubs when I was young was the opportunity they afforded me to see musicians playing on successive nights during their week-long engagements. ...

Bunny Briggs Bunny Briggs came to Northampton in 1979 to celebrate the premier of the documentary, No Maps on My Taps. Briggs was one of the tap masters at the heart of the film, and he led a tap parade...

Bunny Price, the bassist who was at the center of Worcester’s jazz scene for over 60 years, died on September 27 at age 82. Born Elwood Price, Jr. on February 10, 1932, Bunny graduated from Commerce High...

Butch Warren’s 75th birthday anniversary was a month ago. The bassist was born Edward Rudolph Warren, Jr. in Washington, D.C. on August 8, 1939. Herbie Hancock, who with Warren and Billy Higgins...

Jaki Byard Symposium; Brew Moore’s 90th It was nice being greeted by news of the late Worcester native Jaki Byard this morning.  First, Alan Pasqua mentioned him in a news story about...

At Newport, 1988, and Jazz Casual, 1962 Today is Carmen McRae’s 94th birthday anniversary. Born in Harlem to a Costa Rican-born father and Jamaican-born mother, Carmen came of age with modern jazz and...

Today is Carmen McRae’s 93rd birthday anniversary, and here she is singing “’Round Midnight” on Jazz Casual, the television show hosted by Ralph J. Gleason, the San Francisco-based journalist and music...

Today is Cedar Walton’s 80th birthday anniversary.  He died on August 19 at age 79.  Walton was born in Dallas and attended high school with a class that included future legends James Clay and David...