Let’s face it—we all want to read about Bill Evans. I know I did. The book does not disappoint. Chuck played with him over six years and made some classic recordings that I studied when I was starting ...

He's worked with legends in his over 60 years as a bassist. Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Chuck Israels joined us to share stories from his new book, "Bass Notes: Jazz in American Culture". From ...

Direct, precise and no filler — that’s a good way to describe Ron Carter, the tall, eloquent elder statesman of jazz. For many musicologists, he’s considered one of the great virtuosos – if not the ...

Writers, scholars, radio hosts and musicians, including the bassist Ron Carter, share songs that shine a light on an instrument that lays the foundation of jazz. By Marcus J. Moore There’s a clip ...

The famously curious musician and bandleader will celebrate his milestone birthday with a career-spanning Carnegie Hall concert. By Marcus J. Moore On a recent morning on the Upper West Side, the ...

Do not be put off by the cover. It might suggest inaccessible, up itself, bone-dry cerebralism, but the reality is contrariwise. Around a third of the music is vaguely reminiscent, in spirit if not in ...

Welcome to the jazz bass studio at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Bijoux Barbosa is the jazz bass instructor at our college working with students on sound production and ...

BBC4 TV’s feature on Stiff Records and Ian Dury a week or so ago stirred some potent memories, not least his Busman’s Lord’s Prayer: For Oscar and Ella, Herman. Wakefield Jazz re-opens tonight with ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Perhaps he instinctively empathised because he, too, had been treated like dirt. That's why he called his autobiography Beneath the ...

STRAP on your jazz boots for this weekend's J Night International Jazz series. Saturday (22nd) night's concert at the National Centre for Early Music is by Gilad Atzmon and the extended Orient House ...