Art Blakey

Jazz to Be Seen and Heard: New Series of 'Jazz Icons' DVDs 10/29/2009

Wayne Wallace: Trombonist on the Run 10/22/2009

Nublu Jazz Festival 10/19/2009

Thievery Corporation's Frank Mitchell Remembers DJ AM at Outside Lands 08/29/2009

Creating Kind of Blue 08/20/2009

In the '60s, when John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman were defining the concept of a jazz avant-garde, few knowledgeable observers would have guessed that in another 30 years the music's mainstream would virtually bypass their innovations, in favor of the hard bop style that free jazz had apparently supplanted. As it turned out, many listeners who had come to love jazz as a sophisticated ...more