Drummer Ricky Exton has been playing music in this area for some three decades, starting as a teenager with the Tri-C High School All-Stars. (I took promo photos for him in 2001.) He left to earn his ...

Few groups shaped modern jazz like Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Formed in the 1950s, the Messengers became the heartbeat of hard bop—soulful, blues-driven, always swinging. Blakey’s thunderous ...

Bebop, the jazz style, might’ve existed for decades before Cowboy Bebop the show, but let’s be real: In the universe of Shinichirō Watanabe’s iconic 1998 anime, one does not exist without the other.

The language that Bach was using… had a lot to do with the bebop language. Jazz is something impossible to describe, but very easy to recognize… You must listen to both, and for some reason, you ...

The history of the jazz scene in Hartford would look very different without Bushnell Park in the mix. The park has brought jazz out of the clubs, theaters and the public library into the open air to ...