The University of Colorado Boulder Thompson Jazz Studies Program is an important part of the music scene in Colorado, introducing local audiences to the jazz leaders of tomorrow and bringing in the ...

Is jazz showing its age? (From the July, 1996, issue of The Atlantic Monthly.) A selective guide to jazz sites on the Web. It isn't just the generation gap between today's most popular jazz musicians ...

Bebop -- Hard bop begins -- A new mainstream -- The scene -- The lyricists -- Tenors and organs -- The power of badness -- Hard bop heterodoxy : Monk, Mingus, Miles, and Trane -- Changes -- The last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scene from "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie." (HANDOUT/SFC) When Mario A. Rodriguez of Wonky Power performance space/studio asked Woody ...

When writers and critics wrote about alto saxophonist Frank Morgan’s music in the last two decades of his life -- the “lyrical, blues-rich voice,” “the ravishing melodies” -- they also wrote of his ...

The story of the development of jazz in New York is tied to the story of a few seminal clubs and promoters who helped nurture the music. Just as new musical styles were developing during World War II ...

Boston College’s jazz ensemble, BC bOp!, returned to Robsham Theater last Saturday with their Star Wars themed, “Jazz Wars: the bOp! Awakens.” The show offered roughly 20 high-energy, entertaining ...

— Standifer was born on a farm in Gresham, where (purportedly) he learned to get the right tone on his trumpet by playing for livestock. The trumpeter would go on to be both a national name in jazz, ...

“Bebop was characterized as weird but, to many, it was a music that lifted one with beauty and joy,” he wrote in “Swing to Bop.” “It was an expression of the finest black musical minds and, besides ...

UPDATE, June 15, 4 p.m.: The Bebop is now open, Eater Boston reports. Tommy McCarthy and Louise Costello—musicians who also own the Burren—now have another bar and restaurant with music seven days a ...