In the early 1940s, the modern jazz idiom ... dumbstruck by the “weird chords.” Bebop rhythms defied the “dead beat” pulse of swing – as drummers sought to hammer out “tunes ...

Roy Haynes, one of jazz’s most iconic and influential drummers, has passed away at ... to navigate across different jazz styles, from swing to bebop to modal jazz, earned him a reputation ...

Episode 10: A Masterpiece by Midnight During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble. Critics divide the music into "schools" - Dixieland, swing, bebop, hard bop, modal, free, avant-garde. But most young ...

The first definitive biography of Gene Krupa, the most famous drummer on the planet, whose feverish rhythms defined the Swing Era, changed jazz music forever, spurred rock and roll, and influenced ...

Shadow Wilson was an American jazz drummer known for his work in the bebop ... in cui descrisse come la sua adesione all'estetica del bebop fosse mediata dalla classica scrittura swing. Le forme ...

Kuumbwa quickly became a de rigueur stop for a broad swath of jazz’s elite, from swing era survivors, bebop legends and soul jazz preachers ... Max Roach paying tribute to Count Basie drummer Papa Jo ...

Tucson Jazz Music Foundation teams up with Tucson's lone jazz club The Century Room to celebrate international dance and jazz days with special big band dance.

Here are the general findings in jazz music: jazz styles such as swing and bebop are very fast in tempo free jazz - a style developed in the 1950s and 60s - involved players in the same ensemble ...

Wham Re-Bop-Boom-Bam: The Swing Jazz of Eddie Durham is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...