The most exciting jazz reissue of the year has been Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, a tape rescued from the forgotten bowels of the New York Public Library. It captures ...

From modern jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette to masterful scatter and vocalist Nancy King, KNKX remembers the lives of notable jazz musicians who passed away this year.

Renowned jazz drummer Roy Haynes has passed away at the age of 99. Haynes collaborated with numerous other jazz musicians in his career which spanned 70 years. He’s fonly known as “Snap Crackle” among ...

Critic Martin Johnson says DeJohnette, who died Oct. 26, was one of the greatest jazz drummers of the past 60 years. He played with a range of musicians, including Miles Davis and Bill Evans.

Jack DeJohnette, the renowned jazz drummer who played in Miles Davis’ electric period band, died on Sunday at the age of 83. Joan Clancy, DeJohnette’s assistant, confirmed the musician’s death to ...

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Roy Haynes, revered as one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time who helped to shape the bebop era and played with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died aged ...

“An old-time drummer who tries to play with feeling.” This is how Roy Haynes preferred to describe himself, though his legacy spans far beyond such a humble description. The Grammy-winning jazz ...

NEW YORK — Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis on his landmark 1970 fusion album and collaborated with Keith Jarrett and many other greats of the genre, has died at ...

Gustavo Cortiñas doesn’t “do” absolute music — music for music’s sake. The Humboldt Park-based drummer’s work is always about ...

Joe Farnsworth was 10 or 11 when he got the chance to meet a drumming legend: Max Roach. It was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in 1979, where Roach taught. Farnsworth, who grew up in ...

The jazz drummer Billy Hart said the decision was “evidently” connected to President Trump’s name being added to the arts center.

Throughout his seven-decade career, the prolific drummer performed with Charlie Parker, Pat Metheny, Sarah Vaughan and more Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...