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On Sunday, March 29, 1959, right between the two sessions that gave us Kind of Blue , the bassist on those, Paul Chambers (age: 23) and vet...

What is it with succesful jazz musicians that are so appealing for what Americans call "haters"? Whatever it is, Brad Mehldau ha...

Hank Jones's most famous gig Today is Hank Jones's birthday. He was a wonderful pianist, elegance in person, whose career spanned...

Improvisation is the highest form of art for me, because when you see a score for the first time [... T] he first reaction is gut, instin...

... one time [Ben Sidran] interviewed Art Blakey, and he said "if you had to describe jazz in one word, what would it be?" An...

I come from a small town in Northern Spain, in the Basque Country. Although we had a good jazz festival nearby, in San Sebastián, music-w...

Today it's the 45th anniversary of John Coltrane's passing. To commemorate this extraordinary musician, over the last few weeks I...