Archie Shepp

All About Jazz is celebrating Archie Shepp's birthday today! Read More

French authorities, still smarting from the riots of May 1968, forbid it and the festival, which was originally going to take place in or near Paris, was held just a few miles beyond the French border, in Amougies, Belgium. Read More

As part of the first year's festivities — and also to show jazz's global reach — some of genre's biggest names will be performing on Monday night at the United Nations headquarters, in the same space where world leaders gather each fall for the General Assembly. Read More

A number of great American jazzmen have visited Morocco to play in the numerous jazz festivals organized throughout the year, to name Archie Shepp , Randy Weston , Roy Hargroove , Peter Cincotti and many other American figures who made their stamp on Jazz History. Read More

As one of the last living participants in Hartford's exuberant Golden Age of Jazz after World War II — an era when future giants Horace Silver and Gigi Gryce graced the swinging club scene in the North End — pianist Emery Austin Smith is unquestionably one of the city's grand patriarchs of jazz. Read More

Joe Lovano , Benny Golson and Bennie Maupin — will share the stage Friday and Saturday at the Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center for "The Music of the Tenor Masters."Read More