Hailing from the hotbed of New York City’s jazz scene can never hurt the chances of a musician ... SEAMUS BLAKE & THE JOHN SWANA QUARTET Seamus Blake - saxophone John Swana - trumpet Doug Hirlinger - ...

Smoke Jazz Club proves that New York City's golden age of jazz is still swinging. The Upper West Side jazz club recently celebrated its 25th anniversary of offering straight-ahead jazz to New York ...

After moving to New York in 1946, he joined Gene Krupa's big band as staff ... ½ Com'è noto Gerry Mulligan non è stato solo uno dei massimi esponenti del sax baritono nel jazz ma anche un magistrale ...

The Classical — yes, Classical, big C — example of this is Lester Young, holding his horn sidewise, up in the air, because he didn’t have room on the crowded bandstand to play any other way. And ...

After he settled in New York in 1950 — he lived first ... Within two weeks, he had learned the rudiments of the alto ...