Caroling and choirs abound during the holiday season in New Orleans, but so do less traditional performances — including a night of holiday music dedicated to free-jazz icon Albert Ayler and a ...

Bud Werner Library is hosting a live jazz concert at 6:30 p.m. Monday in Library Hall, featuring a performance from the local band, The Cat Pack. The band, comprised of Tim Cunningham, Neil Marchman, ...

Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) may have left this earth at the young age of 34, but his contribution to music history was much more than a grace note. Every time a horn player attempts to play it ...

"For the avant-garde, it was liberating. It just changed everything." Submarine Ent. has debuted the doc trailer for Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz, about the exciting free jazz movement of the ...

Dave Liebman: Placing Free Jazz and the Avant Garde in Musical and Historical Perspective article by Victor L. Schermer, published on February 22, 2021 at All About Jazz. Find more Interview articles ...

For ezz-thetics' revisited series' fourth Ornette Coleman album, the label has ventured back further than any of its previous Coleman albums, to New York City in December 1960 and January 1961.

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The tunes carried over to downtown Springfield for the last September Soul weekend. In conjunction with MIFA’s presentation, Dewey’s Jazz Lounge hosted a free jazz music ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers’ 1965 album ‘Free For All’ is getting rereleased by Blue Note as part of its Classic Vinyl ...