The Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra (SSJO) will open its 2024-2025 season honoring the music of two genre giants with a play on one of William Shakespeare’s famous phrases: “To Be or Not ...

A historic jazz lineup with roots reaching into the heyday of bebop will take the stage at the Caton Castle in Baltimore on Sunday when trombonist Curtis Fuller appears with a quartet of peerless ...

Jordan was born in Detroit on Nov. 18, 1928 and was raised by grandparents who struggled with alcoholism in Pennsylvania's ...

“Lou Donaldson DSC0004a” by Marek Lazarski is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. On Saturday, Nov. 9, the jazz world lost a legend with the passing of Lou Donaldson. Donaldson was a bebop mainstay ...

Sheila Jordan, a pioneer in bebop and the art of scat singing, died on August 11 at her apartment in Manhattan.

The course: Bebop, Modernism and Change. 3 credits. Offered by the Center for Africana Studies in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Syllabus: “Jazz is a marvelous subject that needs more ...