The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and ...

You have people like Cal Tjader, and you have a whole host of other modern jazz musicians that congregated around Brubeck - it was almost a Brubeck school. SMITH: So, was Dave Brubeck the pioneer ...

Performers range from up-and-coming contemporary jazz artists such as Gwyneth Herbert and Soweto Kinch to veteran jazz legend Andy Hamilton. The line-up also boasts American superstars Joey De ...

"I kind of digressed into more jazz and blues and really got into Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone," she told Music Week in 2016. "I'm always inspired by musicians who I felt were musicians before ...

A diverse selection of contemporary jazz artists, including Ego Ella May, the Gülseven Medar Quartet and Alina Bzhezhinska, ...

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Guest artists and clinicians on campus in recent years include ... in the jazz tradition of big band swing while at the same time exploring more contemporary genres and new jazz compositions and ...

propelled by high-energy bands springing up from Connecticut and Pittsburgh led by Art Blakey and Horace Silver. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of ...

Jazz artists have an opportunity to take their music to new audiences with Jazz Road Tours, a grant program offering financial support for touring artists. Managed by South Arts and funded by the ...