Properly paying tribute to a figure like the late Elvin Jones is about more than aping a style of drumming and referencing songs; it's about acknowledging a specific life force, how it fueled the ...

Accompanied by a respected team of musicians (Jesse Sadoc, trumpet and flugelhorn; David Feldman, piano; Jefferson Lescowich, acoustic bass), Rio de Janeiro drummer Alfredo Dias Gomes released Tributo ...

Elvin Jones, whose explosive drumming powered the John Coltrane Quartet, the most influential and controversial jazz ensemble of the 1960s, died Tuesday in New York. He was 76 and lived in Manhattan ...

I’ve recently spent a bit of time listening again to the 1963 album Illumination!, by the Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet. I find it an interesting study of contrasts and a… McCoy Tyner and Sonny ...

Elvin Jones, arguably the most influential drummer of the modern jazz era, died today (May 18) in Englewood, N.J., reportedly of heart problems. He was 76. By Billboard Staff Elvin Jones, arguably the ...

Drummer Elvin Jones was connective tissue between old and new Coltrane. On acclaimed earlier albums like My Favorite Things, Duke Ellington & John Coltrane and A Love Supreme, his drumming sounded ...

Bill Cosby introduced Elvin Jones as "75 years young," quipping, "I don't want to see him when he turns 85. It's gonna be all ballads!" Complimentary champagne was flowing for Jones' opening-night ...

Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub captures a transitional moment in Elvin Jones' career. Jones took up residency at Pookie's Pub — a small venue in Lower Manhattan about a block up from the Holland Tunnel ...

Elvin Jones, whose relentlessly driving polyrhythms as drummer for the John Coltrane Quartet helped make it one of the most important ensembles in jazz history and himself one of the most influential ...