Originally published in 1982, this book is an invaluable and popular resource for both music students and professional musicians alike. Billy Taylor conveys the history and development of America's ...

This article was first published at All About Jazz in January 2002. Jazz piano and world music rhythm make an enchanting pair. With the popularization of world beat music, jazz musicians nurtured on ...

The pianist, who died on Wednesday aged 85, was one of the most accessible and exuberant of jazz's bebop artists, writes John Fordham, who picks his five favourite Silver tracks News: US jazz musician ...

Jazz books often arrive on notoriously slow trains. For years — no, decades — a well-respected writer in New York was said to be working on the definitive biography of pianist Thelonious Monk, only to ...

For decades, he performed, taught and toured with unflagging devotion. He also helped to lay the foundation for the widespread academic study of jazz. By Giovanni Russonello Barry Harris, a pianist ...