This article was first published on All About Jazz on January 1998. When trying to investigate jazz, all the classifications and categories can be a bit confusing. What do they mean when they say ...

Bebop -- Hard bop begins -- A new mainstream -- The scene -- The lyricists -- Tenors and organs -- The power of badness -- Hard bop heterodoxy : Monk, Mingus, Miles, and Trane -- Changes -- The last ...

Live At The Last Hotel, the upcoming release from John Covelli’s Hard Bop Messengers, is a jazz album that literally tells a story. The visionary, original, genre-defying musical journey that reminds ...

Celebrated jazz trombonist, composer, and integral player in the development of the hard-bop movement of the 1950s and 60s, Curtis DuBois Fuller, died in Detroit on May 8 at the age of 88. Born in ...

Curtis Fuller, an acclaimed jazz trombonist who was a key contributor to the bluesy, hard-bop style of the 1950s and 1960s and who was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, died ...

“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 ...

Freddie Hubbard, an influential jazz trumpeter who played with such legends as John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman, died Monday in Sherman Oaks. He was 70. By Jonathan Cohen, The Associated ...

I’m not really a big fan of the sub-genre known as holiday jazz. As great as jazz musicians can be, it’s certainly a challenge to “spice up” the likes of “Little Drummer Boy” and make it your own.

We spoke with Irby about the upcoming show and what to expect from the concert. Tell us about the music direction for Cool School & Hard Bop at JALC. Are you doing anything specific? Joe Block and I ...

Black suits, glinting brass and a sold-out crowd. Such was the scene as Bienen students took the floor Monday evening at the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts. Two of the ...

Hard Bop Messengers bring their hit show "Jazz Interpretations of the Grateful Dead" back to Blue Strawberry after its sold-out debut. Hard Bop Messengers bring their hit show "Jazz Interpretations of ...