This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 1998. When trying to investigate jazz, all the classifications and categories can be a bit confusing. What do they mean when they say ...

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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 ...

Music, much like language, never stays in one place too long; it continuously changes and develops. When bebop came onto the jazz scene, for example, it didn't take long for this evolutionary process ...

“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 ...

Celebrated jazz trombonist, composer, and integral player in the development of the hard-bop movement of the 1950s and 60s, Curtis DuBois Fuller, died in Detroit on May 8 at the age of 88. Born in ...

Opening the show will be the amazing sounds of the Rim High Jazz Band after which the temperature will rise when The Ara ...

We spoke with Irby about the upcoming show and what to expect from the concert. Tell us about the music direction for Cool School & Hard Bop at JALC. Are you doing anything specific? Joe Block and I ...

If Jazz at Lincoln Center had included Memphis in its Jazz Coast to Coast series (which resumes this week with Pittsburgh and next week with Los Angeles), the first man Wynton Marsalis would have ...

Hard Bop Messengers bring their hit show "Jazz Interpretations of the Grateful Dead" back to Blue Strawberry after its sold-out debut. Hard Bop Messengers bring their hit show "Jazz Interpretations of ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. — If jazz music is your funk, you're in luck this weekend. St. Paul is hosting the Twin Cities Jazz Festival on Friday and Saturday. Two outdoor stages will host free acts in Mears ...