We send a little love to get the pre-Valentine's Day festivities started and we celebrate the birthdays of harmonica player Larry Adler, bandleader & drummer Chick Webb, pianist Sir Roland Hanna and bassist & bandleader Rufus Reid. Plus several Listener

There can’t be another decade that has furnished us with such an abundance of great music. After the commercial success of The Beatles there followed a massive surge in R&D. Artists were frequently able to release ten LPs in as many years, with many famo

Revolutions in jazz almost always relate to time. Armstrong’s conversion of jazz into a soloist’s art arose because of how he soared freely over the static two-beat groove of New Orleans jazz. The swing players created a flowing rhythmic swing in quarter

This morning’s New York Times reported the death of Sam Rivers at the age of 88, providing an obituary by Nate Chinen. According to his daughter, Monique Rivers Williams, Rivers died of pneumonia in Orlando, Florida, on Monday. Rivers is best known for

With its successful fall season completed, Firehouse 12 unwraps two special winter concerts that sound like the answer to a guitar lover's holiday wish list for dream concerts in Connecticut. The New Haven venue presents the legendary guitarist/composer/

Paul Motian , a jazz drummer and composer who spent more than 50 years in the music industry, died November 22, from complications of multiple myeloma. He was 80. The New York Times ' Ben Ratliff once called Motian "one of the greatest drummers in all of