The late great saxophonist’s 100th birthday was celebrated in style with performances from Randy Brecker, Jon Faddis, ...

SpaceX is to carry out the ninth test flight of its deep-space rocket Starship early on Wednesday, as it aims to keep its ...

Bryson, the daughter of Dizzy Gillespie and composer Connie Bryson, released her debut album, “I Love Being ... Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the ...

In this video, I break down a killer 16th-note blues lick I transcribed from Dizzy Gillespie and show you how I used it to level up my improvisation skills. Learn how to practice fast phrases and ...

Interestingly, the cover features Nico ... a seasoned alum of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie’s bands, was already a formidable force on the saxophone. Gone With Golson, his fifth album, captures ...

At one point in the piece, while speaking about her famous reimagining of the Dizzy Gillespie-penned jazz standard ... on ‘Sticky Wicked’, on my CK album in 1988, and it was a beautiful ...

In the next hour we’ll hear her with Eckstine’s band and with musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie ... one of her signature tunes—“I Cover The Waterfront,” on Night ...

Album covers can sometimes make or break the appeal of an album. These five super-cool album covers from the 1990s only made the music within their sleeves even better. Let’s take a look at just ...

But when an album does have a great cover, it stands out. When that cover’s visually representative of the music itself, it stands out even more. Below is a list of some of the most notable ...

And the cover of that week’s issue of Down Beat depicted Dizzy in full presidential regalia, with top hat, appearing to take the oath of office by swearing on a Bible. In 1971, Gillespie ...

Dizzy Gillespie. For those unfamiliar, the pioneer in bebop Jazz, whose angled bell on his trumpet and frog-like cheeks that puffed out when he played, made a splash at a Los Angeles club named ...