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 ...

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 ...

Music, much like language, never stays in one place too long; it continuously changes and develops. When bebop came onto the jazz scene, for example, it didn't take long for this evolutionary process ...

Lee Morgan’s 1960 hard bop classic ‘Lee-way’ is set to be reissued as part of Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl Series.

The opening bars to his "Song for My Father" was used by Steely Dan for their hit, "Rikki Don’t Lost That Number." By Phil Gallo Horace Silver Obit - P 2014 Jazz pianist Horace Silver, a progenitor of ...

“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 ...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is back on January 16 at 7:30 pm with Cool School & Hard Bop. Under the music direction of JLCO saxophonist Sherman Irby and JLCO frequent collaborator, pianist, ...