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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’m not really a big fan of the sub-genre known as holiday jazz. As great as jazz musicians can be, it’s certainly a challenge to “spice up” the likes of “Little Drummer Boy” and make it your own.

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 ...

“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 ...

Lee Morgan’s 1960 hard bop classic ‘Lee-way’ is set to be reissued as part of Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl Series.

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 ...

The Pitchfork precogs reached consensus. There wasn't even an inking\r\n\ of a minority report on Low Kick ... Save this story Save this story The Pitchfork precogs reached consensus. There wasn't ...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is back on January 16 at 7:30 pm with Cool School & Hard Bop. Under the music direction of JLCO saxophonist Sherman Irby and JLCO frequent collaborator, pianist, ...