Sam Rivers

While he's remembered foremost as a key contributor to the bands of jazz titan Charles Mingus, tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin also recorded a slew of outstanding albums as a leader, none of them better than his 1963 outing The Freedom Book. If the accumulated weight of post-bop's golden era can sometimes feel like an unfathomable musical avalanche, this casually faultless quartet outing is unquestionably one for the hearing. Read More

Saxophonist Bobby Watson (pictured), once part of the front line of drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and now an elder statesman of the Kansas City jazz scene, is returning to St. Louis to perform at 8:30 p.m. Read More

"I had some momentum in town after that CD release," said Burns, 32, who juggled his music career with a return to school at the University of Central Florida, where he graduated in December with a history degree. Read More

Leading up to the April 28th premiere at Montgomery County Community College of a new piece written by Muhal Richard Abrams for Bobby Zankel's Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, music writer Shaun Brady ( JazzTimes , Philadelphia City Paper , Philadelphia Inquirer ) will be contributing a series of blog posts about the project. Read More

Leading up to the April 28th premiere at Montgomery County Community College of a new piece written by Muhal Richard Abrams for Bobby Zankel's Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, music writer Shaun Brady ( JazzTimes , Philadelphia City Paper , Philadelphia Inquirer ) will be contributing a series of blog posts about the project. Read More

Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, America needs new enemies upon whom we can dump our never-ending supply of scorn and bile. Read More

Recently, we've said goodbye to some jazz greats — including drummer Paul Motian, musician and street poet Gil-Scott Heron , violinist Billy Bang , drummer Joe Morello , and saxophonist James Moody , among others. Read More

Joe Lovano , Benny Golson and Bennie Maupin — will share the stage Friday and Saturday at the Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center for "The Music of the Tenor Masters."Read More

Munich, Germany (PRWEB) March 21, 2012 The group Deep Jazz recorded its second album in a new exciting nonet formation. Read More