Archie Shepp News

Bebop was considered a radical departure for jazz music during its formation in the 1940s and 1950s, pioneered by drummer Max Roach , Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie among others.

It's almost midnight in Sweden, and the 72-year-old jazz legend Reggie Workman is back at his hotel after the night's concert - with an 5am wake-up call in the morning.

Steve Holt was a child prodigy starting to play piano at the age of four. Born in Montreal Canada, he began his professional career at the age of seventeen - self-taught - playing the clubs in and around Montreal.

Recorded live in concert at the Willisau Jazz Festival on August 30, 1979, The Long March documents another of drummer Max Roach 's historic duo collaborations with the leaders of the jazz avant-garde. This stellar date with tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp follows Streams of Consciousness , with pianist Abdullah Ibrahim , and Birth and Rebirth , ...

Sep. 4--Each edition of the Chicago Jazz Festival carries its own themes and obsessions, and this year it's the sound of surprise .

Jazz flutist Elise Wood Hicks will perform with her quintet in her debut appearance at the Deer Head Inn at 7 p.m. today.

The event was billed as Four Days in December , and on the last four days of 1964, Judson Hall in New York City was witness to a torrent of free jazz.

Bassist Cameron Brown has had a long and illustrious career as a sideman. He has appeared on around 100 recordings, providing an anchor for luminaries such as Archie Shepp , Roswell Rudd and Beaver Harris , as well as the celebrated Don Pullen / George Adams Quartet.

For Ronnie Boykins, Sun Ra 's bassist, The Will Come, Is Now brings to a close a remarkable sojourn that stretched from his galactic showcasing with the Arkestra at the Judson Hall performances of 1964 to an intellectual deconstruction of bebop.