Normal service resumes with a podcast devoted to tributes celebrating the still-obscure pianist and composer Herbie Nichols. Nichols spent his truncated career in the shadow of Thelonious Monk (a big ...

Herbie Nichols is a perennially neglected jazz pianist and composer. He recorded less than half of his 170 compositions on three classic trio albums for Blue Note and one for Bethlehem before dying of ...

the trombonist Roswell Rudd and the collective known as the Herbie Nichols Project each made strong cases on record for the work of the once obscure Nichols. Two new jazz releases find a pair of ...

Herbie Nichols SUNG * Fieldwork (Vijay Iyer / Steve Lehman / Tyshawn Sorey) * Flore Laurentienne * Free Form Funky Freqs (Jamaaladeen Tacuma / Vernon Reid / Calvin Weston) * Helado Negro ...

The jazz-funk score to Coffy stands alongside the twin pillars of Shaft and Super Fly, bringing the bongos to every future ...

Read More Brett Gelman worked hard to get into 'reprehensible' Terry Nichols' head for 'McVeigh ... 11 hours ago Famous birthdays for April 12: Herbie Hancock, Saoirse Ronan April 12 (UPI ...

Billie Holiday - God Bless The Child (Audio) Watch this video on YouTube Click to load video “Lady Sings The Blues,” co-written with pianist Herbie Nichols, is another evergreen from the ...

With performances by multi-Grammy Award winner and jazz musician Herbie Hancock, dancer and choreographer Lucinda ... Trace Adkins, Lorrie Morgan, Joe Nichols and other country stars accompanied by a ...

Queen, Herbie Hancock and Barbara Hannigan have received the prestigious award, known as the “Nobel Prize of Music”. British rock band Queen, American jazz legend Herbie Hancock, and Canadian ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Grammy Award–winning composer and jazz musician Herbie Hancock will perform at Severance Music Center on November 4. The 84-year-old Hancock pioneered groundbreaking sounds ...

Hancock is best known for the pioneering album Head Hunters (Herbie Hancock/PA) “Queen, a band synonymous with the very fabric of pop culture, have made an impact on music that spans decades ...