Chet Baker

Concord Music Group launches a new series of jazz compilations for the summer of 2012 that showcases the very best tracks culled from the recordings of some of the most influential artists in the history of the genre. Read More

Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) May 29, 2012 Now that "Mad Men" is back on TV and Mid-Century styles and architecture are the essence of hipster chic, delve into the world of NUTTY--the band who performs Jetsetter Jazz--a cool mash-up of renowned pop/rock vocals and melodies gliding over timeless jazz tracks. Read More

Chet Baker was one of the hippest, handsomest, most talented jazz musicians on the 20th-century scene; but most of us never got the chance to hear him play live. Read More

Since first joining forces in 1998 with guitarist and kindred spirit Jordan Officer in her Swing Band, Montreal-based singer Susie Arioli has been casting her seductive spell on jazz fans throughout Canada, and in Europe. Read More

Phenomenal Live disc by this amazing and incredibly gifted & talented guitarist featuring 15 tracks (73 mins.) of top-shelf, soul-powered, blues-based, retro-vintage, Hendrix-inspired six string mojo of monumentally serious world-class proportions. Read More

Dizzy Gillespie famously said, "One foot in the past and one in the future," to which could be added – if you are talking about the Wolff & Clark Expedition – with feet firmly planed in the here and now. Read More

I first saw Brian Newman perform a while back at Duane Park. The space was packed, but I managed to get a nice dose of some pretty swingin' music and a glimpse of his noteworthy style. Read More

During my years of labor at KGO-TV in San Francisco, I never passed the parking lot a block away at Turk and Hyde without regretting the injustice of a world that puts more value on the storage of automobiles than on preserving historical landmarks. Read More

In March 1956, Chet Baker was touring in Germany when he was paired with French singer-guitarist Caterina Valente. Read More

Teddy Charles, a hard-swinging four-mallet vibraphonist, composer, pianist and player-producer who in the late 1940s and early '50s transformed the steel-plated instrument into a cooler, jazz-classical protagonist, died on April 16, He was 84. Read More