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Freddie Hubbard Dead At Age 70 -

Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died Monday, Dec. 29 in Los Angeles, California, of complications from a recent heart attack. He was 70-years-old. The musician helped bridge the gap between be-bop and jazz fusion.

Freddie Hubbard's esteemed career combined raw talent and a little bit of luck. As a teenager,...

Joe Henderson - Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 - June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Born in Lima, Ohio, he studied music at Kentucky State College and Wayne State University before playing in Detroit at the beginning of his career. After a two year hitch in the U.S. Army (1960-1962), Joe...

Wynton Marsalis Invites Eric Clapton To Join him at Lincoln Center -

On April 8 and 9, Wynton Marsalis the Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, will draw in a fellow high-profile musician for an intriguing event. These evenings are entitled “Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues” and will take place at the Rose Theater with music set to...

Soul jazz - Soul jazz was a development of hard bop which incorporated strong influences from blues, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often the organ trio which featured the Hammond organ. Important soul jazz organists included Bill Doggett, Charles Earland, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Les McCann, "Brother" Jack McDuff,...

Music DVD Review: Cannonball Adderley - Live in '63 -

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Earfood - My, how time flies. It didn't seem so long ago when Wynton Marsalis spotted this young trumpet talent at a Dallas high school in the mid-eighties. Since then, Roy Hargrove has recorded fourteen albums as a leader, and another co-led with Herbie Hancock and Michael Brecker. For these efforts, he's won...

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