The best songs by New Jersey chanteuse Sarah Vaughan explain how she modernized the art of jazz singing in the post-war era.

Discovered by trumpeter Donald Byrd at the start of the 60s, Hancock signed to Blue Note Records, and wrote jazz standards ...

In the 1940s a young jazz singer with a four-octave range and bebop chops burst onto the big-band ... with Eckstine’s band and with musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester ...

In 1990, the single famously failed to make number one in the UK charts by only eight copies, beaten by The Steve Miller Band's The Joker ... Sir Paul McCartney, Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder ...

Ray Brown called him “The Genius” and Dizzy Gillespie called him “One of The Best” but ... creating a seventeen-piece big band sound through the use of overdubbing. “It was tremendous fun and the ...

Drummer Ulysses Owens Jr.'s Big Band comes out swinging on its debut recording, Soul Conversations, thundering through Michael Dease's incendiary arrangement of the Dizzy Gillespie/John Lewis ...

In live performances with Zappa’s band ... Dizzy Gillespie. You find the melodies changing quickly; rising or falling, skipping up and down. If you put it on paper, it’d look like a seismology ...

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Bassist (and trombonist) Chris Brubeck co-leads the band with his brother Dan Brubeck ... about how jazz musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong were the most famous Americans in ...

Has there ever been a song with a title that’s as apropos to the music that accompanies it as “Dizzy”? The 1969 No. 1 hit single by Tommy Roe keeps listeners spinning in the same way the song’s ...

Stapleton resident Russ Anixter and his Hippie Big Band recently released their first album, “What Is?”, an eclectic collection of big-band arrangements of rock, jazz and blues songs running the gamut ...