Legendary jazz musician and Winchester native John Kirby will be celebrated at this Friday’s Bistro Concert at the Shenandoah Valley Westminster-Canterbury retirement community.

José Antonio Bowen was Dean at the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU and has performed in 46 states and 17 countries and with Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin ...

Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, and many other notable contemporaries. Like his compatriot Kenny Clarke, Roach expanded the rhythmic and melodic range of the drums’ role in jazz ...

She saw a trombone when she was young and was taken by its beauty ... Melba Liston is best known as an arranger and composer, thanks to her associations with Dizzy Gillespie and ...

In observance of HPU’s month-long celebration of Black History Month, Stephen Goacher, professor of music at HPU, will ...

The album’s highlights include a percussion-driven rendition of Dizzy Gillespie’s exotic bebop ... the presence of Curtis Fuller’s resonant trombone, Blue Train offered a unique sonic ...

Harlem School Of The Arts To Launch New Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Academy Honoring The Trumpet Virtuoso And Celebrating His ...

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born Oct. 21, 1917 in South Carolina, the youngest of nine children of Lottie and James ...

It is dripping from the pre-game performances, and Trombone Shorty is going to blow people away with his rendition of America the Beautiful on Sunday. Trombone Shorty hails from New Orleans ...

The two stood next to each other on blue circle platforms during their performance CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Trombone Shorty and Lauren Daigle brought New Orleans jazz to Super Bowl 2025!

I'm gonna represent Nola Bay, uh, you know, New Orleans and Oakland too. Trombone Shorty, what about your rendition? What do you have planned? I think me and Lauren, we put together *** very New ...

On Feb. 9, 1961, Wichita Falls-born alto saxophonist and flutist Leo Wright appeared with Dizzy Gillespie’s quintet in ...