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 ...

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 ...

Live At The Last Hotel, the upcoming release from John Covelli’s Hard Bop Messengers, is a jazz album that literally tells a story. The visionary, original, genre-defying musical journey that reminds ...

Indulge me for a moment, and imagine the jazz snob: turtleneck, horn-rimmed specs, that goddamned snapping and a nasally tone of condescension for anything but the most difficult of musical forms.

Celebrated jazz trombonist, composer, and integral player in the development of the hard-bop movement of the 1950s and 60s, Curtis DuBois Fuller, died in Detroit on May 8 at the age of 88. Born in ...

“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 ...

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Join us every first Friday of the month for live jazz at Idol Wolf at 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis courtesy of Hard Bop Messengers LATIN! from 6 to 8 p.m. Live music, artful cocktails and delicious apps ...

If Jazz at Lincoln Center had included Memphis in its Jazz Coast to Coast series (which resumes this week with Pittsburgh and next week with Los Angeles), the first man Wynton Marsalis would have ...

Black suits, glinting brass and a sold-out crowd. Such was the scene as Bienen students took the floor Monday evening at the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts. Two of the ...