This month, 11 more Les Blank documentaries are available on the Criterion Channel. Blank’s subjects included Cajun and ...

Steely Dan leader Donald Fagen has always defied expectations, and once picked his surprising "perfect" choice for music to ...

Bop was as much a style as it was a sound. Youthful, idealistic, and musically gifted, pioneers like John Birks “Dizzy” ...

This week, we start things off with some Afro-Cuban sounds from Bud Powell, Zaccai Curtis and Dizzy Gillespie. Next, a celebration of the birth of pianist Erroll Garner who would have been 103 today.

Dizzy Gillespie (Self)Freddie Carter (Master of Ceremonies)Sahji (Self (Lead exotic dancer))Helen Humes (Self (Lead singer))James Moody (Self)Milt Jackson (Self (Xylophonist))Ray Brown (Self (Bass ...

CD6: Be-Bop; Good Bait; Medley a) I Can't Get Started, b) 'Round Midnight; Dizzy Atmosphere; November Afternoon; This Lovely Feeling; The Day After; The Cup Bearers; Ow!; The Champ; Emanon; ...

British photographer Francine Winham shot groundbreaking images of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Nina Simone, but the influence she had on the people closest to her may still be her most important ...

One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time Dizzy Gillespie dazzled the world with his talent as one of the pioneers of bebop and Latin jazz but with his puffedout cheeks bent trumpet and ...

Among the leaders of this new idiom were trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Thelonious ... After the rise of bebop, jazz splintered into competing camps. In the 1950s, a more melodic style known ...

He played with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in Harlem, helping to create the bebop sound that revolutionized the genre. Jazz historian Phil Schaap of WKCR said Roach would’ve been ...

Gillespie and Machito Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods The elements of music to consider Performing and composing ideas The impact of Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods ...