Clifford Brown

Last week I posted about star-crossed trumpeter Don Sleet [pictured] and his sole leadership album All Members. Read More

From one angle, the career of the saxophonist Steve Grossman might seem to have unfolded in reverse. Read More

A POWERFUL and creative trumpet and flugelhorn player who has toured with the Rat Pack Show will make an appearance at Scarborough Jazz at the Cask tonight. Read More

Recorded jazz is still under a century old, but in a little over nine decades an enormous quantity of music has amassed. Read More

Herb Alpert is pleased to have given some friendship to a lonely bull. Read More

Catch a rare performance by the jazz impresario on Friday, November 13, at 8:00 pm when George Wein brings his Newport All-Stars to Jazz at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Read More

Tenor saxophonist Howard Wiley, Berkeley High Jazz Band alum, will perform with his trio and with acclaimed poet Amiri Baraka Monday night at Yoshi's in Oakland. Read More

Herb Alpert is pleased to have given some friendship to a lonely bull. Read More

The television comic Soupy Sales loved jazz, knew its history and many of its leading players. Read More

About twenty years ago, when he was writing the music for Spike Lee's Jungle Fever , his first film score, trumpeter Terence Blanchard took a hiatus from a successful career—at 28, he could already look back on a four-year stint with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and several years with the contemporaneously influential quintet he co-led with alto saxophonist Donald Harrison —to change his embouchure. Read More