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hardbopz
WHAT IS HARD BOP?
by Scott Yanow
Hard bop, like cool jazz and soul jazz, started out as a subsidiary of another style of music, in this case bop.
With the rise of bop in the mid-to-late '40s, the chor...
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Age 15
Jazz caught my ear from the time I was 15. I first heard Dixieland in the Danny Kaye movie The Five
Pennies and on a daily radio show hosted by the late Benson Curtis. My very first record wa...
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THOUGHTS:
I believe that there is no reason in the world that jazz cannot triple its audience and that jazz musicians and singers cannot make a decent living.
If many more of us will just use our cre...
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is my latest book. It includes entries on
342 great jazz guitarists plus shorter mentions of 219 others. It relates the interesting story of
the jazz guitar, its fight to replace the banjo in the 19...
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Nat King Cole & The Quincy Jones Big Band
Live In Paris - Fremeaux & Associates
Lisa Mann
Jimmy Cobb
Paul Bley/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian
When Will The Blues Leave - ECM
Buddy Love
Kevin Hays/Chiara Izz...
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Links
These performers can generally be found on the Internet by putting a www. before their name and a .com after it (providing
they have a website). Here is an assortment of musicians who I strongl...