In 1954, Mary Lou Williams was feeling burnt out. The pianist had been one of the true jazz modernists, pushing the boundaries at every turn. She was a mentor to the beboppers, she wrote one of ...

Strayhorn (1915-1967), an openly gay Black man, was "one of the preeminent geniuses in jazz history" but "lived much of his public life in the shadow of his mentor and collaborator Duke Ellington," ...

Four powerful jazz talents perform at Celebrity Series Jazz Fest, March 13th through 16th in Cambridge. We spoke to each one ...

Among the game changers who overcame systemic roadblocks, Mary Lou Williams, Marian McPartland ... Born in America, jazz is now practiced worldwide. We’ll be featuring Belgian composer Miriam ...

Tonight on the Night Train – some Rufus Harley and an Unusual Instruments in Jazz Special for Bagpipes Day; music from March Featured Artist James Moody; bluegrass jazz from our Featured New Release ...

His efforts got their public launch last April at the Kennedy Center, where Moran (the center’s longtime artistic director for jazz ... by the likes of Mary Lou Williams and Count Basie.

When: March 1 at 8:30 p.m. What: The Greenville Symphony will pay homage to jazz with performances of pieces by Mary Lou Williams, Mason Bates and Duke Ellington. When: March 1 at 7:30 p.m ...

The Chicago jazz sound amounts to a sum of the city ... that city’s formidable lineage of pianists (which includes Mary Lou Williams, Erroll Garner and Billy Strayhorn), he moved to Chicago ...

supported tours to Colombia and Togo and Benin in West Africa. She was also selected as one of five female jazz pianists invited to participate in the inaugural Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz ...

If there’s one woman who is basically the champion of bringing jazz to Milford, it is renown vocalist and music producer Amy ...

Peter Wolf's book 'Waiting on the Moon' includes a fascinating chapter about Bob Dylan's early days in New York — Wolf took ...