Gil Evans

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

An educator at the Eastman School of Music and former student of legendary composer and arranger Bob Brookmeyer, Rivello's large ensemble has been playing regularly for the past eight years at the renowned Village Vanguard. Read More

Feeling the limitations of the jazz combo format that was prevalent in the late 1940s, Miles Davis assembled a nonet to play music that allowed for more orchestration and color, while still maintaining the improvisational elements of that era's be-bop sound. Read More

Barring a handful of gems, among them Louis Armstrong's salutes to Fats Waller and W.C. Handy, most miss the mark because they try too hard to one-up or mimic the subject of their adulation. Read More

H ere it is, the ultimate boxed set, a completist's wet dream that makes the recent Beatles trove (thirteen CDs, in mono and stereo) seem a piddle by comparison. Read More

The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a deluxe CD/DVD box set, contains every album released by the jazz master on Columbia Records. Read More

Join us this Friday, November 13th, for an in-store Barnes & Noble interview with seminal jazz guitarist, John Abercrombie. Read More

Time was when the prospect of a jazz soloist playing with a full symphony orchestra struck fear into the jazz-loving breast. 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

Back in 1971, three adventurous young US jazz musicians formed an uncompromising improv group called the Revolutionary Ensemble – a title that had resonances in the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, and the radical transformation of jazzmaking that had been ignited by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane. Read More