Mike Wofford has long been hailed as one of the jazz world's finest pianists. Read More
There are a number of highly talented jazz musicians from the late 1950s who can't really be called great because they recorded too few albums. Read More
Lennie Niehaus' arrangements for Stan Kenton's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s are superb. 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
Half a century ago this year, jazz experienced an annus mirabilis. Read More
It was conceived by Sonny Rollins in 1957 as an homage to the Wild West and the Westerns of his youth. Read More
Lesa Terry has a band at LACMA on Friday, and she plays a terrific jazz violin. Read More
Charlie Mariano, saxophonist, composer, bandleader and seminal musical figure, died on June 16, 2009. Read More
Shelly Manne made a countless number of records from the 1940s into the 1980s but is best-known as a good-humored bandleader ... Read the full Shelly Manne bio.