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Dizzy Gillespie, “Long Long Summer”I listened to hours and hours of Dizzy Gillespie over the weekend — not an unprecedented act, though it carried a…
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Mickey Roker, a soulful and deeply propulsive drummer who carried a torch for literate hard-bop in the decades after its commercial peak, died on Monday…
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By the time trumpeter Lee Morgan was eighteen years old, he was a fully established talent on the jazz scene. Touring with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band…
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"Long Tall" Dexter Gordon is one of the best known and significant musicians on his instrument: he was one of the first tenor saxophonists to adopt the…
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Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy Gillespie centennial celebration kicks off this week. Dizzy’s music will take over JALC for a four-day weekend of shows…