Alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's masterpiece, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation by the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, is one of the hinges of jazz evolution. As a musical hinge, Free Jazz, ...

Billie Davies Brings A Surprising New And Special Avant-Garde Music. Posted in “Recording” column. Published: November 18, 2025 @ All About Jazz ...

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: Ah, no! My name is ...

Refused named their classic 1998 album The Shape of Punk to Come after Ornette Coleman’s 1959 free jazz classic The Shape of ...

Fifty years ago, when drummer Rashied Ali entered the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for his latest session with John Coltrane, he was surprised to find the rest of the saxophonist ...

Believe it or not, Deep Ellum used to be a jumpin’ spot for jazz. Back in the 1920s and ’30s, bars such as the Gypsy Tea Room, The Gay Paree and Sambuca Jazz Club were frequented by Texas legends such ...

The Vail Jazz Festival is in full swing as it heads into its final full month of programming. This summer has been a big success for the latest addition to the festival, Vail Jazz @ Solaris, a free ...

Drummer John Von Ohlen, co-founder of the Blue Wisp Big Band and featured soloist with the Stan Kenton and Woody Herman orchestras, died Wednesday. He was 77. Von Ohlen was Cincinnati's premiere jazz ...

Jack DeJohnette, the visionary drummer whose piano stylings became a force later in his career, died on October 26 in Kingston, N.Y.

The organisers of the world’s biggest jazz festival have spent over 40 years perfecting their annual Montreal event and making it accessible to all, with many free gigs. The Montreal International ...

The Santa Monica College Music Department wraps up the 2025 Fall Friday Night Jazz Series with the Peter Erskine Quartet, ...