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Roy Haynes, who has died aged 99, was one of jazz’s greatest drummers, a maestro of bebop with the crisp, rapid snare and cymbal patterns that earned him the nickname of “Snap Crackle”; he ...

An integral part of jazz is the swing feel, and drummers are often the ones stoking that fire, ... ART BLAKEY While Art Blakey was a key pioneer in bop drumming during the '40s and '50s, ...

Bebop is the sharp dividing line between swing and modern jazz. It was born in the early 1940s from jam sessions led by alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, pianists Bud Powell ...

His rhythmic innovations and improvisations defined bebop jazz. His peers deemed him the “greatest jazz drummer ever” by the time he was 30. And after helping reinvent the genre, ...

Drummin` Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz: The Swing Years By Burt Korall Schirmer Books, 369 pages, $24.95 Back in the swing era, 1935-45, the drummer was certainly the most dramatic-looking player in ...

Shelly Manne While bebop was flourishing on the east coast, Shelly Manne was the man way out west. The drummer and band leader was a stalwart on the LA jazz scene for many decade - fronting ...

As the house drummer for Riverside during the label’s early 1960s heyday, Heath appeared on many of the hard-bop era’s definitive albums, including “The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes ...

The following is an excerpt from the "Lennie Tristano: The Passionate Intellectual" chapter of Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian American Experience by Bill Dal Cerro and David ...

Jazz drummer and South Hadley native Joe Farnsworth will lead a quintet at the Northampton Jazz Festival in September at a concert honoring his hero, the legendary drummer Max Roach. It’s not hard to ...