Teddy Wilson

Pannonica Rothschild 's story reads like one of those lurid and doomed romantic melodramas that the reader just knows can only end with the tragic ruin of everyone involved. Read More

Family and friends of Eddie Locke will celebrate the drummer's life Sunday evening, November 22, at St. Peter's Church, Lexington Avenue and 54th Street in New York City. Widely respected as a perfomer and a teacher, Locke died on September 7 at the age of 79. Read More

Dick Katz, a pianist, record producer, educator and writer whose knowledge of jazz from the stride-piano era to 1960s modernism made him a valuable presence on New Yorks jazz scene for six decades, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. Read More

Dick Katz, a pianist, record producer, educator and writer whose knowledge of jazz from the stride-piano era to 1960s modernism made him a valuable presence on New York's jazz scene for six decades, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. 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

She welcomed audience members Celia Pearson and Karen Fazekas, daughters of Paul Pearson, who first brought jazz to Annapolis in the 1970s at Maryland Inn's King of France Tavern, showcasing for over two decades such artists as Charlie Byrd , Ethel Ennis and Teddy Wilson. Read More

When The Ohio State University Marching Band plays Ramsey Lewis' "Hang On Sloopy," the entire stadium reverberates as it's sung; it's a song that the band keeps alive. Read More

At the end of each quarter, I reach back into the interviews I've conducted over the past three months and re-post my favorite quotes. Read More

Though he cites the pianists of New Orleans as the biggest influences on his own musical style, the one band that George Winston credits with starting him on the road to being a musician didn't include names like Fats Waller, or Teddy Wilson, or James Booker or Henry Butler in its lineup. Read More

Trumpeter Al Stewart spent much of 1948 and 1949 touring with Benny Goodman's bebop band. Read More