The evening concluded with a tribute performance by the Oscar Peterson Centennial Quartet, Ulf Wakenius on guitar, Mark ...

Jazz was the most influential musical movement of the 20th century. What’s its story? The Count Basie Orchestra. Alexander ...

Blue Note has announced a new Essentials series, featuring releases from Chet Baker, Herbie Hancock, and more.

Recorded and released in 1958, 'Laughin To Keep From Cryin' is getting a vinyl reissue via the Verve Acoustic Sounds Series.

Chris and Dan Brubeck have been making music together practically all their lives. Drummer Dan and bassist, trombonist, and ...

The common factor linking this 3CD concert collection is the location: Paris, with the Olympia and Salle Pleyel as alternating venues, hence the local label, its bi-lingual annotation and Granz's ...

THE history of jazz in Italy dates back only to the 1930’s, hut it has become an important element in popular culture. The Fascists attacked jazz as “Negroid music" and tried, unsuccessfully, to keep ...

"The Sound of Jazz" is a 1957 edition of the CBS television series Seven Lively Arts, and was one of the first major programs featuring jazz to air on American network television.

You’ll be hearing a concert from our April Jazz Legend Art Blakey leading the Jazz Messengers at the Olympia Theatre in Paris in 1958.

The talent development organisation, creative producer and charity marked its 30th anniversary in 2021 by gathering leading names from across the London jazz scene to create a unique image Taken on ...

During its 1958 European tour, the Ellington orchestra played two concerts in Copenhagen, parts of which were broadcast and recorded and are now released for the first time. After their sensational ...