When Charlie Parker died in 1955, a journalist suggested to Sonny Stitt that he might be ‘the new Bird’. Stitt’s reply was ...

Try A Little Tenderness; Back To My Home Town; All Of You; Never Felt That Way Before; World Really Isn't; They Say It's Wonderful; Time After Time; I Love You; Once In A While; Talk To Me; ...

She was a music program supervisor in New York City public schools for four decades and had been the companion and muse of renowned jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt. For the last decade, she’s been ...

Nine-time Grammy winner Wynton Marsalis performs live at Wolf Trap on Thursday, performing with The Jazz at Lincoln Center ...

Vol. 1; Steamroller; I'll Be Seeing You; Out Of Nowhere; Sweet Georgia Brown; Keepin' It; This Is Always; Makin' It; Angel Eyes; Vol. 2; At Last ; Bouncin' With Bud ...

The Best Things In Life Are Free; Engos, The Bloos; It Might As Well Be Spring; Cherokee; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Body & Soul; People Will Say We're In Love; Bloosey; Birds' Eye; ...

Peplowski met Sonny Stitt while on the road with the Dorsey band, and studied with him. “He was, and is, an inspiration to all of of us who make a living ‘on the road’ – I’ve never heard anybody play ...

In his final year of art school, he studied photography. This allowed him access to venues where American players performed such as “Oscar Peterson, Roy Eldridge, Sonny Stitt, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, ...

This episode covers the legacy of legendary bassist Richard Davis as a sideman for Roland Kirk, Jaki Byard, Andrew Hill, Gabor Szabo, Van Morrison, Janis Ian, Eric Dolphy, George Benson, Sonny Stitt, ...

"The people I listened to in college are still the cats that are influencing me today," says Alexander. "Monk, Dizzy, Sonny Stitt, Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson—the ...

In the early years, Jim moved to New York where he worked with prominent jazz musicians including Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt, Herbie Green, Dorothy Donegan, Philly Joe Jones, and many others too ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Springfield’s culture and musical history are being brought to life this weekend for the 11th ...