But, if actual jazz is your main interest, the edge goes to MAP. The benefit was started by the Godston brothers, childhood friends of local drummer Brian Jones, in tribute to their mother who ...

Her style fuses jazz, blues, and folk, earning her critical acclaim and commercial success. Birth Date: April 18, 1974; Major Albums: Careless Love, Half the Perfect World, The Blue Room; ...

The 260 tracks captured in these 11 CDs come from the years 1943 to 1948, which are sort of a moment beyond time in the history of jazz, the absolute midpoint, stylistically if not chronologically.

From there, the album ranges over various jazz styles—blues, swing, cool—and reaches a high point with Fats Waller’s full-chorded, stomping piano playing and lowdown comic singing.

Bassist and bandleader Christian McBride, trumpeter Joshua Trinidad and saxophonist Tim Berne are performing Denver shows in February.