New York's JVC Jazz Festival opens today at the newly renovated Carnegie Hall with a bursting-at-the-seams schedule of different New York venues.
Imprisoned Czechoslovakian arts activist Karel Srp, the chairman of the banned Jazz Section of the
The first entry in a continuing series of festival-style programs titled "Portraits in Jazz" turned
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The first of five Satchmo look-alike auditions kicked off, fittingly, in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong's hometown.
Davis, Joe Williams and Marian McPartland are set to appear at this year's JVC Jazz Festival in New York, impresario George Wein announced Tuesday.
Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson and Jerry Lewis were among mourners at a private Westwood funeral Sunday for jazz drummer Buddy Rich.
Twenty musicians from the Blue Note jazz label, including Dexter Gordon, Bobby McFerrin, McCoy
Jazz and blues stars including Miles Davis, George Benson and B. B.
Ella Fitzgerald sang to a sellout crowd at New York's Avery Fisher Hall Wednesday, her first major concert since she was hospitalized with a heart ailment last year.
The Los Angeles Jazz Society announced 10 nominees for its fifth annual tribute award to a local artist on Tuesday.
Seven leading members of the Czechoslovak Jazz Section--an independent cultural group and body of
Hot tickets in Moscow are to the Blue Bird, the capital's first jazz club.
the Los Angeles Jazz Society at its annual luncheon Sunday.
Columbia Records has issued a new Columbia Jazz Masterpieces series featuring digitally remastered
Czechoslovakia's Jazz Section cultural group, whose leaders were ordered jailed last week for
Veteran jazz drummer and band leader Buddy Rich has been released from UCLA Medical Center, two
So you have no conspiracy against Dixieland, and you've covered Sacramento's Dixieland Jubilee in the past but not every year--you call that an answer to Lew Forrest (Calendar Letters, June 15)?
whatever he thinks "jazz" might be ("Sting Kicks Off First Solo Tour," Aug. 15).
The 1986 Playboy Jazz Festival will feature a strong lineup of both old and unfamiliar names, many