All About Jazz — For those naysayers and/or moldy figs who say, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that jazz is dead, don't buy it. The music isn't even on life support, given the attention and interest it receives from music educators and their serious students at college, hi... more info

All About Jazz — By: Ryan Dembinsky Are people born with rhythm? Chico Hamilton by Todd Boebel Sitting down at the kitchen table inside 88-year-old jazz legend Chico Hamilton's midtown Manhattan apartment, chewing the fat about jazz music and his storied career ... more info

All About Jazz — MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC and LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC:THE CHARLES MINGUS INSTITUTE announce 2nd Annual CHARLES MINGUS FESTIVAL Saturday and Sunday, February13 and 14 in New York City SUE MINGUS and JUSTIN DICIOCCIO, Producers The music and le... more info

All About Jazz — Guitarist Chris Vasi's new quartet recording Vesuvius features saxophonist Roberto Curtis, drummer/percussionist Drex Weaver, and bassist Carter Blough, and includes tunes by Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Bobby Timmons, as well as Cuban and Ca... more info

Guardian Music — Founded in 1981, the same year as the Walkman, this NYC underground label put out cassette-only releases that helped shape the US hardcore punk sceneTapes have always been the lo-fi ruffians of the stereo age. But in the 1980s, the only way you could... more info

All About Jazz — You don't have to go back too far to find the musical inspiration in Zeke Martin's past. His father, Stu Martin, accompanied some of jazz's great talents, including Herbie Hancock, Charlies Mingus, Quincy Jones, and John McLaughlin. But the Brussels-... more info

Guardian Music — Charlie Parker's final collaboration, featuring bebop's biggest stars, is one of the greatest recorded live shows in jazzIn this series on the fast-changing, 100-year-old history of jazz, the alto saxophone genius Charlie Parker has featured to an ex... more info

All About Jazz — New York's Jazz Standard Monday October 12 Mingus Big Band Charles Mingus was looking for individuality in his musicians and thats one of the great things also about being in the Mingus Big Band, because it really forces you to have your own indiv... more info

All About Jazz — Four Manhattan School of Music alumni are being honored at a special alumni homecoming reception on October 16, 2009. Joe Wilder, Capt. Kenneth Force, Elliot Goldenthal, and Laquita Mitchell will be recognized for their significant career accomplishm... more info

Guardian Music — After the 1960s, jazz got loud and angry. And so did its record sleevesIt was a time when white visitors to New York took a deep breath and rode the subway to 125th Street, since cab drivers cruising the midtown streets could not be persuaded to take... more info