Recently, The Land spoke with a broad mix of jazz fans, musicians and promoters, who expressed deeply mixed feelings about ...

Exuding the joyousness and freedom of jazz, harmonica master Toots Thielemans and the estimable keyboardist Kenny Werner are blowing the blues away this week at Yoshi's. Making the duo a trio in the ...

It was a typically mellow but triumphant return for Russ Dewbury's Jazz Bop. The Event II seemed a strange venue but it actually filled out well with the usual eclectic crowd. In terms of comfort, it ...

Despite all that, Bop’s first sun-splashed outing is an unrelenting joy – a peppy, ’70s AM radio-inspired wonder on which James’ deft songwriting out-dazzles the impressively heavy construction. If ...

You hear a name like the Bebop Trio and you think, “Oh, OK, I think I know what this one is going to sound like." In the case at hand, you'd probably be wrong. The trio's self-titled debut (Creative ...

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 ...

Three decades ago, Herbie Hancock revolutionized the role of the piano by melding it with a textured funk groove. The popular result, Headhunters, opened a whole generation's worth of ears to the ...

“Lou Donaldson DSC0004a” by Marek Lazarski is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. On Saturday, Nov. 9, the jazz world lost a legend with the passing of Lou Donaldson. Donaldson was a bebop mainstay, a ...

Most popular genres of music come to fruition in some of the most culturally diverse music scenes and highly-populated cities such as New York, Los Angeles or London, but jazz music developed ...