True revolutions are never “finished.” They are ongoing and permanent in their power to transfix and transform us. The music of the great innovators of the last century, from Igor Stravinsky to ...

The Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra (SSJO) will open its 2024-2025 season honoring the music of two genre giants with a play on one of William Shakespeare’s famous phrases: “To Be or Not to Bop: ...

“Bebop & Beyond: The Music Of Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie,” featuring Charles McPherson, Gilbert Castellanos, Jeremy Pelt, Antonio Hart, Gerald Clayton, David Wong and Joe Farnsworth Concerts ...

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell: They altered the course of American music and raised the bar for improvisation. Listen to 10 experts’ favorites. By Giovanni Russonello What five minutes ...

There’s something to be said when, in 2022, a guitarist born in 1988 in southern Italy releases a bass-and-drums trio recording titled “Be-Bop” (Sony Masterworks), housing 10 selections consisting ...

In 1945, after he and Charlie Parker had concluded the initial phase of the bebop revolution, Dizzy Gillespie fulfilled a lifelong wish by starting a big band. The time was certainly not propitious ...

It’s part of the mission statement of Jazz at Lincoln Center to honor the music’s greatest innovators, and no one jazz icon has received more adulation than Dizzy Gillespie. There have been at least a ...

Most jazz fans know Dizzy Gillespie's crucial role in the creation of bebop and every good collection should have at least a few tracks from his glory days of the forties. The man wrote "Night in ...

This is Les Blank’s earliest music film, focusing on the renown trumpet player, Dizzy Gillespie, who along with Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins and others sparked the change from ...