Today in Music History for March 15: ...

Haynes was a drummer who liked to prod his fellow players. Over the course of his career, he played with Miles Davis, Charlie ...

Nels Cline widens his eyes, gets an ultra-serious look on his face, brings his hands up. “Yes,” he says, with an exaggerated ...

The NEA Jazz Master tenor saxophonist George Coleman is known for his memorable opening solo on Herbie Hancock’s title tune “ Maiden Voyage ” (Blue Note 1965). That hardy muscular sound was his entré ...

Robert Jospe and his jazz band will be performing on March 22, at 7 p.m. at Carysbrook Performing Arts Center. It has been 12 years since Robert Jospe played at Carysbrook and he said he is thrilled ...

Nadeau is the band leader for "The Nite Show" band and is also teaching the next generation of musicians. BREWER, Maine — ...

In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby," he imagined the world of splendor and desire that was the Roaring Twenties ...

A hundred years after The Great Gatsby shone a light on extravagant Long Island mansions and secret speakeasies, the spirit ...

Roy Ayers was a beloved sample source who made it a point to collaborate with rappers as the genre rose to prominence ...

Roy Ayers, the legendary vibraphonist and jazz-funk pioneer best known for his song "Everybody Loves the Sunshine", has died. He was 84.

Roy Ayers, the jazz/R&B artist known as the Godfather of Neo-soul, died on Tuesday in New York City at the age of 84. His ...