This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 1998. When trying to investigate jazz, all the classifications and categories can be a bit confusing. What do they mean when they say ...

“Lou Donaldson DSC0004a” by Marek Lazarski is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. On Saturday, Nov. 9, the jazz world lost a legend with the passing of Lou Donaldson. Donaldson was a bebop mainstay, a ...

Boston College jazz ensemble bOp! gave an impressive performance Saturday night. Their showcase delivered skillful vocals and ...

Music, much like language, never stays in one place too long; it continuously changes and develops. When bebop came onto the jazz scene, for example, it didn't take long for this evolutionary process ...

The comments on the guestbook pages of the jazz septet, Afro Bop Alliance would swell any musician’s head. “Love your sound É wow,” wrote Patty Kenny last March. That same month, Joy Roy wrote that ...

Bebop -- Hard bop begins -- A new mainstream -- The scene -- The lyricists -- Tenors and organs -- The power of badness -- Hard bop heterodoxy : Monk, Mingus, Miles, and Trane -- Changes -- The last ...

The Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra (SSJO) will open its 2024-2025 season honoring the music of two genre giants with a play on one of William Shakespeare’s famous phrases: “To Be or Not to Bop: ...

Additionally, Jazz at Lincoln Center is honoring the historic relationship between art and jazz during these two shows. The sounds and rhythms of jazz have been a source of inspiration for visual ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The spring concert season is underway and that means that America’s roads and highways are filling up with deluxe busses and 18-wheelers carrying high-tech stage and audio gear for ...

There's a reason historians keep circling back to jazz. Not because it's the most commercially dominant genre today - ...

Cowboy Bebop only ran for one season, but it had an outsized influence on what nerds think is cool. The jazz-inflected tale of a group of bounty hunters scraping together a living in a grim far-future ...