Jan. 19-23: The pioneering bands M’Boom, an all-percussion ensemble, and the World Saxophone Quartet, a horns-only unit, join forces as they did at a momentous 1981 concert in the Cathedral of St.

On June 26, 2011, Arturo O'Farrill and the Chico O'Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra ended a fifteen-year run at New York City's Birdland, and—to our good fortune—had the foresight to record that very ...

On and off for the past half-century, the Birdland Jazz Club has been a hub and a home for the jazz community in the genre's spiritual hometown of Manhattan. By Dan Ouellette On and off for the past ...

Storybook: The Music Of Mark Miller is at one level the unfolding narrative of its 10 musical selections. At another, it is a tale about its primary author, Mark Miller, who prefaced his journey from ...

When pianist Mehldau, sax legend Konitz and bassist Charlie Haden got together on a 1997 Blue Note session, it not only showed how sympathetic to improvising on familiar songs all three were, but it ...