It is not an overstatement to say that modern jazz has been shaped by the music of McCoy Tyner. His blues-based piano style, replete with sophisticated chords and an explosively percussive left hand ...

Roy Haynes, the pioneering jazz drummer who performed with legends like Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Sarah Vaughan, died ...

An irrepressible force who remained relevant over the course of a seven-decade career, he had a hand in every major ...

Metheny's body of work includes compositions for solo guitar, small ensembles, electric and acoustic instruments, large orchestras, and ballet pieces, with settings ranging from modern jazz to rock to ...

The Modern Jazz Quartet fused bebop stylings with classical music aesthetics to create a cool and elegant sound that some critics dubbed “chamber jazz.” In 1959, they provided the score to ...

The world’s best jazz, right here. Explore today’s greats, new musicians making waves, and stories from the genre’s rich ...

One of the seminal modern jazz-funk bands to emerge during the early '90s "rare groove" revival, fiery quintet the Greyboy ...

Roy Haynes' death marks the end of an era in jazz history, as he was one of the last living connections to the genre's golden ...

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Haynes absorbed new styles in the jazz tradition. Yet it was often the older elements of his style, originating in the 1940s and '50s — the strut and bounce and swing and dance in his beat — which ...