Bud Shank

Mike Wofford has long been hailed as one of the jazz world's finest pianists. Read More

Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. Read More

Death came swiftly to Bud Shank on April 2, 2009 when he died in his sleep at his home in Tuczon, AZ of a pulmonary embolism following a return to his home following a recording session in Los Angeles. Read More

Born in Dayton, Ohio, Bud Shank originally studied clarinet in Vandalia, Ohio but quickly switched to tenor sax before attending college at University of North Carolina. Read More

Bud Shank (1926 - 2009) was the conscience of mainstream jazz. Read More

Rockpile, a collaborative journey of poetry and music, featuring David Meltzer, poet, musician and essayist, and Michael Rothenberg, poet, song writer and editor of Big Bridge Press, along with worldclass musicians Marty Ehrlich, Lindsey Horner, Michael Stephans and Bill Zavatsky, will perform on Sunday, November 9th at the Gershwin Hotel in New York City. New York is the fifth stop of the Rockpile journey. Read More

Tenor Saxophonist Bill Perkins' first album as a leader was On Stage for Pacific Jazz Records. Read More

Music hasn't really mattered much in American fiction. Read More