Add Us On i Make JazzTimes a preferred source and Google will show you more of our stories in Top Stories. Back in the 1970s, pianist Al Haig told me that, to him, the changeover to bebop in the 1940s ...

Hank Jones, 91, a jazz piano virtuoso who had a remarkably prolific career over eight decades and accompanied a range of performers, including Charlie Parker, Marilyn Monroe and Captain Kangaroo, died ...

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 ...

Ira Gitler, who turned his childhood obsession with jazz into a career as a major behind-the-scenes figure, as a critic, magazine editor, record producer and historian who documented the rise of ...

"Mulberry-eyed girls in black stockings, Smelling vaguely of mint jelly and last night's bongo drummer... fling their arrow legs / To the heavens / Losing their doubts in the beat" of San Francisco ...

For decades, he performed, taught and toured with unflagging devotion. He also helped to lay the foundation for the widespread academic study of jazz. By Giovanni Russonello Barry Harris, a pianist ...

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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 ...