Though he’s an accomplished soloist, composer, arranger, and bandleader, Mike Longo is best known to most jazz fans as Dizzy Gillespie’s favorite pianist. But Longo, who played with Gillespie from ...

(New York, NY) August 22, 2005 - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola-- located in The House of Swing, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall – presents conguero, bandleader and GRAMMY Award-winner, Ray ...

Rebellious jazz took flight in Harlem at Minton’s Playhouse, but it was nurtured on the tree-lined streets that gave pioneering Black musicians a home. Dizzy Gillespie during a photo session in ...

You should see this place, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, up yonder at **Jazz at** Lincoln Center, first of all just to behold the not-too-distant future of venue-naming (five years from now Tiny Masters of ...

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell: They altered the course of American music and raised the bar for improvisation. Listen to 10 experts’ favorites. By Giovanni Russonello What five minutes ...

The Tipitina’s Record Club’s current release, “Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie: Live in New Orleans,” brings up some old memories for Gregory Davis. The Dirty Dozen trumpeter and ...

The career of pianist Kenny Barron is a particularly outstanding example of how the jazz business is supposed to work: The best younger players start as sidemen to established bandleaders, and ...

"There is a lot of speculation about the 'origin and development of Be-pop harmonic improvisation.' Coming home from the superb Jazz Kitchen program presented by the Jared M.Thompson Ensemble, I ...