This article was first published at All About Jazz in January 2002. Jazz piano and world music rhythm make an enchanting pair. With the popularization of world beat music, jazz musicians nurtured on ...

The opening bars to his "Song for My Father" was used by Steely Dan for their hit, "Rikki Don’t Lost That Number." By Phil Gallo Horace Silver Obit - P 2014 Jazz pianist Horace Silver, a progenitor of ...

While major jazz labels are leaning heavily to signings of pop artists to beef up their bottom lines, several independent labels, including Origin, the newly formed Fabola and the established Arbors ...

Bebop -- Hard bop begins -- A new mainstream -- The scene -- The lyricists -- Tenors and organs -- The power of badness -- Hard bop heterodoxy : Monk, Mingus, Miles, and Trane -- Changes -- The last ...

“Lou Donaldson DSC0004a” by Marek Lazarski is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. On Saturday, Nov. 9, the jazz world lost a legend with the passing of Lou Donaldson. Donaldson was a bebop mainstay, a ...

Curtis Fuller, an acclaimed jazz trombonist who was a key contributor to the bluesy hard-bop style of the 1950s and 1960s and who was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, died ...