Carla Bley

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Fairfield University's Jazz Ensemble features jazz drummer extraordinaire Adam Nussbaum, Saturday, Dec. 5 at the Wien Experimental Theatre in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. Director of Jazz and Popular Music at the University and renowned bassist Brian Torff leads the Ensemble for two shows at 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 general, $5 students. Read More

At first glance, Carla Bley's current band, the Lost Chords, look like just another jazz quartet. Read More

Carla Bley made her much-awaited appearance at the London Jazz Festival with The Lost Chords, a quartet comprising her partner Steve Swallow on bass, Andy Sheppard on saxes and Billy Drummond on drums. Read More

The real joy of the London Jazz Festival is the sheer extravagance of it. Read More

Below we conclude Stuart Nicholson's two-part article on the inner workings of the Molde Jazz Festival—a hugely successful event that brings 100,000 visitors to a city with only 25,000 residents. Read More

Chick Corea's gig with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (15 Nov) also on the bill would be a big one for me. Read More

Equilateral, one of Iowa's top jazz bands, will play the Redstone Room Friday night. Read More

Equilateral is one of Iowa"s best jazz bands, with members including Chris Merz (saxes), Brent Sandy (trumpet), Greg Mazunik (bass) and Eric Thompson (drums). Merz and Sandy have worked together extensively since 2000, when Merz returned to Iowa to take a teaching position at the University of Northern Iowa. The current lineup came together in the fall of 2008, upon Sandy"s return from a stint in Corfu, Greece. Mazunik has freelanced around the Iowa City area for the past 10 years. Thompson has recently returned from New York City, where he lived and worked following graduation from NEC (Boston). Read More

The commitment to jazz teaching that has filtered through to the once classical-only UK conservatoires is not only producing highly skilled soloists, it is turning those institutions into hothouses for new, fully formed bands playing original material. Read More