All About Jazz — Hal McKusick was and remains a jazz musician's musician. Even in his earliest days in Boyd Raeburn's band in the mid-1940s, Hal's distinct sound on the alto saxophone was admired by bandmates Lucky Thompson, Oscar Pettiford and Dizzy Gillespie as wel... more info

All About Jazz — Aguabella, a sacred drummer of the Santeria religion, left Cuba in the 1950s. He performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Palmieri, Carlos Santana and the Doors. Francisco Aguabella plays the conga drums in Holl... more info

Topix — Francisco Aguabella, the Cuban-born percussionist whose Latin rhythms backed up Peggy Lee, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon, has died. more info

All About Jazz — Frank DiBussolo has been a professional musician since 1965. During this time he has worked with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Diana Ross, Diane Carroll, Vicky Carr, Bob Hope, George Burns and Dom DeLouise and others. As a soloist he has been featured... more info

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All About Jazz — Jazz station KKJZ-FM (88.1) is adding a new program to its weekend schedule, "Bebop and More," featuring music by classic artists such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk along with contemporary performers such as Christian Scott. ... more info

Guardian Music — The high priest of improv's 1956 album Brilliant Corners is a remarkable insight into his wayward musical mindThe New Yorker critic Whitney Balliett once described Thelonious Monk's idiosyncratic timing and unexpected resolutions as feeling like "mis... more info

Detroit Free Press — Dizzy Gillespie was one of the critical architects of bebop, the modern jazz style that took root in the mid-1940s. But within just a few years, Gillespie was also marrying Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz, a prescient innovation that in many ways presag... more info

All About Jazz — Twenty years ago the pianist Danilo Perez was a precocious member of Dizzy Gillespies United Nations Orchestra, a clutch of musicians from the Americas and the Caribbean. That appointment, which ended with Gillespies death in 1993, was formative: Mr.... more info

Guardian Music — 'Ray Charles told me: You can always get another agent or manager – but you are the only Dee Dee Bridgewater'What got you started?At the age of seven, I announced to my father and mother that when I grew up I was going to be an "internationall... more info