Elvin Jones

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

The subtext of the week's performances — with McCoy Tyner, Roy Haynes, Eddie Palmieri and Jack DeJohnette as guests on various nights — is that Mr. Glover is a musician. Read More

About twenty musicians representing the Chicago jazz scene are to perform during the Made in Chicago Festival which opens tonight in Poznań, western Poland. Read More

Paris has its problems, but iconography isn't one of them. Read More

THE MUSIC OF JOHN COLTRANE, ORNETTE COLEMAN AND MILES DAVIS featuring Special Guests DAVID SANCHEZ and STEVE WILSON at HARRIS THEATER on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 7:30 pm Pre-Show Conversation with Jon Faddis and Neil Tesser at 6:30 pm The CJE Introduces Listening Sessions on Saturday, December 5, 4:00 pm at the Jazz Showcase with Dana Hall, Peter Margasak and Leonard Brown CHICAGO, IL, November 19, 2009 – 1959 was a very good year. Read More

Rollins indelibly wrote himself into the pages of jazz history on June 22, 1956 with a series of nonpareil performances for the album Saxophone Colossus . 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

Writer's block is a luxury that few working writers can afford — least of all Amiri Baraka, who, at 75 years old, remains one of the most prolific authors in the world. 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

It's a rare jazz musician whose work earns its own name—and rarer still in an enthusiastic but small scene like D.C.'s. Read More