This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 1998. When trying to investigate jazz, all the classifications and categories can be a bit confusing. What do they mean when they say ...

Indulge me for a moment, and imagine the jazz snob: turtleneck, horn-rimmed specs, that goddamned snapping and a nasally tone of condescension for anything but the most difficult of musical forms.

New York, NY -- True to the groove rhythms of hard bop made famous by drummer and bandleader Art Blakey, the John Brown Quintet is releasing its debut CD, Terms of Art: A Tribute to Art Blakey and the ...

I saw Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers once. It was in the mid 1980s at a club in Upper Manhattan called Mikkel’s. Blakey was then in his sixties, white-haired, straight-backed, his musical powers ...

Jazz aficionados are well acquainted with the name Art Blakey, a renowned 20th Century bebop/hard bop drummer from Pittsburgh who teamed with jazz pianist Horace Silver (from Norwalk) in 1954 to form ...

Lee Morgan’s 1960 hard bop classic ‘Lee-way’ is set to be reissued as part of Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl Series.

WILLIAMSTOWN — George Cables remembers the night of his first gig with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. It was 1969 and the 24-year-old piano player had just joined the group at the recommendation of ...