Guardian Music — Emerging from the shadow of his hero Charlie Parker, Miles Davis rejected the aggressive tempos of bebop to pioneer a new style that became a landmark in jazz evolutionMiles Davis, the dentist's son from St Louis who came to New York in 1944 to study... more info

MTV.com News — The comedy icon made pie-in-the-face gag a pop-culture phenomenon.By Gil Kaufman Soupy Sales in 2001 Photo: Scott Gries/ Getty Images It was a simple gag, but one that made Soupy Sales a household name: a pie in the face, or 20,000 pies, t... more info

All About Jazz — This is the 92nd anniversary of Dizzy Gillespie's birth. There are many ways to celebrate it. The Rifftides staff offers two. The first video is from the Bern Jazz Festival in 1985. The band is Dizzy, James Moody, Gene Harris, Ray Brown and Grady Tat... more info

All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating Dizzy Gillespie's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Dizzy GillespieJohn Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, one of the greatest Jazz trumpeters of 20th century and one of the prime architects of the bebop movement in jazz,... more info

All About Jazz — Composer/Leader {{Eugene Marlow's}} quintet The Heritage Ensemble is devoted to the concert performance of well-known Hebraic liturgical and folksong melodies in various jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and neo-classical styles. (See below for latest ... 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

Guardian Music — This month, the world's most famous jazz club celebrates five decades of playing host to an extraordinary procession of musical legendsFifty years ago this month, what was to become the most famous jazz club on the planet – Ronnie Scott's ââ‚... more info

All About Jazz — Trombonist David Gibson delivers another album full of melody and grounded in a strong sense of purpose on his new CD A Little Somethin (Posi-Tone, 2009). Gibson is a veteran of the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, and a leader in his own right. In... more info

All About Jazz — You may not recognize Al Stewart's name. But back in the late 1940s and 1950s he was one of the most in-demand East Coast trumpeters in the big-band business. Over the past 55 years, Al has played trumpet along side the biggest names in post-War jazz... more info