A trombone that once belonged to the late and legendary jazzman Edward (Kid) Ory was stolen from the Hollywood home of his daughter Wednesday night, Los Angeles police said today.
George Duvivier, a leading jazz bassist, died of cancer last week at his New York City home.
Rudi Blesh, jazz historian and biographer, has died of a stroke at his farm in Gilmanton, N.H., the entertainment paper Daily Variety reported Thursday.
The tally will come in later, but I have to believe that the second annual Classic Jazz Festival
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Clad in kimono and obi, jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi once nervously "entered and signed in" on a
The good news is that Woody Herman, the indefatigable "road father," is alive and well at the Vine St.
Can one man turn San Diego State University's fledgling jazz program into one of the biggest and
Sunday evening at the Wadsworth Theater, the New American Orchestra, with Jack Elliott conducting, offered a program of four pieces, two of which were premiere performances.
Charles McPherson, who once toured in a show called "The Musical Life of Charlie Parker," brought his alto sax and his Bird-like credentials to Catalina's on Friday, backed by the Alan Broadbent Trio.
No one can ever accuse Quartet Music of lacking creative determination.
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Disc jockey Langley Patterson, the host of a popular weeknight jazz show on KLON-FM in Long Beach
You don't go to jazz dance performances looking for new movement ideas--but Dave Massey of Diamond
points in the fourth quarter Saturday, a performance that lifted the Utah Jazz to a 131-123 victory
Jimmy Dell Palmer came home Friday.
With his pure, round tone and economical approach to improvisation, Art Farmer has set the jazz standards for the fluegelhorn.
In the years since it was spawned as an urban street music in the ghettos of the Bronx, rap has devolved from socially significant message to black-teen bubblegum.
Utah Jazz holdout Darrell Griffith has a broken toe, stalling negotiations between the National Basketball Assn. club and the free-agent guard.
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