Buddy Defranco News

NYC Afro/Cuban Bata Drum Workshops, presented by New York Jazz Academy, are now open for pre-registration. For Bata enthusiasts, ages 16 and older, these weekly workshops offer a hands-on exploration of Bata drumming in an intimate setting.

Arnold's interest in Jazz began at age nine, after buying a Buddy DeFranco 45rpm record and attending a George Shearing performance.

All About Jazz is celebrating Tony Scott's birthday today! Tony Scott Tony Scott, a distinguished jazz clarinetist who in the 1950s helped steer his instrument out of the swing era and into the sax-infested waters of bebop.

Chicago-based author and educator Bill Dal Cerro contacted the obituary desk last week after I wrote about Sam Butera , the hard-driving tenor saxophonist whose musical partnership with Louis Prima in the 1950s and 1960s made them a major national act.