Discovered by trumpeter Donald Byrd at the start of the 60s, Hancock signed to Blue Note Records, and wrote jazz standards ...

The other great soloist in early jazz was soprano ... the swing era gave way to what was then known as “modern jazz” – the so-called bebop innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

In 1925 the Jazz ... truly modern decade and, for better or worse, it created the model for society that all the world follows today." The 20s in all its lighthearted excess grew from a great ...

When your drumming career begins at age 19 in the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, playing for jazz legends like Lional Hampton, Woody Herman and Count Basie, it’s more than a great start. To perform with Ella ...

Additional funding is provided by public television viewers like you, the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra and Pellissippi State Community College. Live at Lucille’s: Great Performances from the World ...

“The Great American Songbook is my bible,” she says. At the Berklee College of Music in Boston, a hotbed for rising jazz prodigies ... but imbued with modern slang and conveying big, relatable ...