Longtime Harlem resident and well-known performer Sista Zock brings the storied Minton’s Playhouse (206 W. 118 Street) to ...

And so, in Jazz, we complete our trilogy of American life, finding in the music's lines and phrases and riffs not only a meditation on American creativity, but a joyous and sublime celebration of ...

Some notes used in jazz music may be flattened by a semitone. These are normally the third, fifth or seventh notes of the scale. Musicians playing jazz sometimes use pentatonic scales and blues ...

No Jazz Messengers, no Blue Note. It’s like that. When one thinks of the careers that were born from the Messengers (or Art Blakey’s 1954 Quintet) and who recorded for the label, during or ...

In “Farm Fresh Jazz (notes from a saxophonist)” Penelope Keep ... setting a lovely tone for the music ahead. Faux candles flickered on cloth-covered tables, while purple and red lights ...

Here are the general findings in jazz music: jazz styles such as swing and bebop are very fast in tempo free jazz - a style developed in the 1950s and 60s - involved players in the same ensemble ...