Combining Birdland (fusion jazz) and Long Distance Runaround (progressive rock) into a seamless medley is a fitting way to begin this high energy album, Prestidigitation". It could be the best ...

Jazz bands rarely had occasion to tour like rock stars, but Weather Report hit the road with a light show, lasers and film projections, between 1978-81 as part of what was arguably the jazz-fusion ...

"The Birdland [club] needed a theme song for a six-hour disc-jockey show that they had in the early '50s," Shearing said. "So I wrote this thing. I heard it in my head.

An engagement – gig, that is – at Birdland goes right to the top of any musician’s résumé; on March 7 it landed on Norwood-Tiger’s. Her Birdland debut was a smashing success.

By the mid-eighties, Valenti recalled, everything had calmed down but also turned upside down. “By 1965, when the first Birdland club closed, most of the musicians had moved to Europe and Asia.