Bob Brookmeyer News

Writing decent music for a jazz big band is hard, and keeping the band working is harder.

Bob Brookmeyer is a legendary top-valve trombone musician and A-list jazz arranger.

Photographer W. Eugene Smith moved into a loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, in the heart of New Yorka TMs Flower District, in 1957.

Pianist John Horler has played with American greats like Chet Baker, Zoot Simms, Al Cohn and Bob Brookmeyer, and was a founder member of the wonderful Acoustic Triangle, writes Chris Beggs .

Image of the sax player on the door of Wally's Cafe tagged Bostonist by AntyDiluvian .

In an economic climate where jazz quartets are reviving the time-honored "Everybody in one Winnebago" tour strategy, it's amazing that big bands even exist , let alone put out the dynamic, challenging music that's come from Maria Schneider , the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and the assorted large units associated with maintaining bassist Charles Mingus ...

In addition to leading the unclassifiable Claudia Quintet and performing numerous sideman duties, composer and percussionist John Hollenbeck is renowned for his inimitable multi-layered writing.

Hidden Jazz Dowloads During one of my recent swings through iTunes and Amazon, I stumbled across five terrific jazz albums you may not know about.

Bob Brookmeyer , Music for String Quartet and Orchestr a . Brookmeyer long since worked himself out of the compulsion to write edgy electronic music and acoustic music that sounds electronic.