The late composer's groundbreaking work will be heard in two movies on the schedule, 'The Slender Thread' and 'The Pawnbroker ...

I'm Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Originally Joseph Goreed, Joe Williams was a jazz singer who left an indelible mark ...

Thelma Carpenter was a jazz singer and actress best known for her role as Miss One, the Good Witch of the North, in "The Wiz.

Protestors from Southampton Stand Up To Racism gathered outside the Concorde Club in Eastleigh on Thursday night as Katie Hopkins performed at ...

Rookie Wire examined every team and the prospects they’ve brought in for workouts before the NBA draft on June 25-26.

13, 1908, into a relatively well-to-do family that included a very musical half sister who played piano in a jazz trio that rehearsed in the Berry home, Chu's love of music and the saxophone was born.

Coleman Hawkins single-handedly brought the saxophone to the prominence in jazz that the instrument enjoys. Before he hit the scene, jazz groups had little use for the instrument. One player (forgot ...

Others of his cohort, like Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young or Ben Webster ... Benvenuti a uno dei convegni di bellezza più eccitanti che il jazz abbia mai prodotto. Royal Roost, New York City, dicembre ...

Jazz’s Prometheus ... Growing up in 1940s Harlem, Sonny Rollins idolized swing-era heavyweights like Coleman Hawkins and jump-blues saxophonists like Louis Jordan. But when he heard Charlie ...

A senior tenor saxophone player with the Bellarmine Prep jazz band, Sidney Mbugua has a deep love for ... Listening to the emotional ballads from sax greats Coleman Hawkins and Illinois Jacquet, it’s ...

Others of his cohort, like Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young or Ben Webster ... Whether he was ever truly at peace with himself and his stature in the world of jazz is another matter. And his troubled ...

Forty years ago Eddie Cook filled in the technical gaps in Burnett James' appraisal and explanation of Coleman Hawkins' saxophone tone. First published in Jazz Journal March 1985 This is another issue ...