Jazz

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Big band
The Stride Piano founder left nightclubs in favor of symphonic music

James P. Johnson has secured an honorable place in jazz music history as one of the most gifted piano players and…

June 13, 2018
Saxophone
Nelson's time in the Marines inspired his future composer career

Oliver Edward Nelson (1932–1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He is best remembered for…

June 8, 2018
Songwriter
The swan song of Abbey Lincoln, the voice of human rights

Abbey Lincoln, born Anna Marie Wooldridge, was a popular American jazz singer who wrote songs about black culture and…

May 18, 2018
Big band
Take 'A' train jazz standard originated from Duke Ellington's letter

Take the 'A' Train is a Billy Strayhorn composition that became a signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and is…

May 8, 2018
Songwriter
Ellington's classic song established swing as a jazz form

It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills,…

April 23, 2018
Orchestra
Defining Gershwin rhapsody was conceived on a train trip

Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most performed of all American concert pieces, and its opening clarinet glissando is the…

April 12, 2018
Piano
Chick Corea's Spanish pulse in the masterful jazz standard

The son of a trumpeter, the genius pianist Chick Corea is referenced as one of the lead specialists in the fusion of…

March 22, 2018
Saenghwang
Modern jazz meets traditional Korean music in Park Jiha's Communion

Both somehow minimalist and carrying the richness of jazz improvisation, Park Jiha's debut album Communion borders on…

March 19, 2018
Trumpet
Chet Baker: the divine voice of the West Coast jazz

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was born in 1929 in Yale, Oklahoma. The son of musically inclined parents, he sang in…

March 11, 2018