In a career that stretched across seven decades, Mike Wofford provided exactly the right touch on piano in any and every musical setting. His death Friday morning just after midnight, silences an ...
One of the great joys of jazz is seeing how the music of many of its giants — Dizzy, Miles, Duke, Mingus — reflected their unabashed personalities. Their music was synonymous with who they were in ...
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the , Miles and Coltrane at 100, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 12 at UCSB Campbell Hall. An all-star quintet led by pianist Cohen celebrates the centennial of jazz geniuses Miles ...
The city’s music is spiritual, searching and defiantly local, even when it spreads worldwide. Hear tracks from Yusef Lateef, ...
This is FRESH AIR. Here on the show, we memorialize jazz composer Benny Golson and drummer Roy Haynes. Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead remembers a few more musicians who passed in 2024. For some of ...
When we make music, we're never exactly sure how it's going to turn out... But we have developed such trust in each other, there's never any doubt that the end result is going to be good. In fact, it ...
SAN DIEGO -- In a career that stretched across seven decades, Mike Wofford provided exactly the right touch on piano in any and every musical setting. His death Friday morning just after midnight, ...