On September 24-26, 2010, Jimmy Katz, in co-production with The Jazz Gallery, will present an intimate jazz festival celebrating the music and life of Ornette Coleman. The event, aptly named ...

This record featured the great but rarely recorded lineup of trumpeter Don Cherry, drummer Ed Blackwell and bassist Charlie Haden. One of the world’s funkiest drummers, Blackwell was not afraid to ...

Reality is filled with confusion and misunderstandings; some are suggestive or creative, while others are disappointing or, worse, malicious. The jazz world is no stranger to the first type: specific ...

This collection consists of a photograph of jazz legends Ornette Coleman and John Lee Hooker posing together for the camera. Ornette Coleman (1930-2015) was a jazz composer and musician, specializing ...

As we reported yesterday, over the weekend, two jazz icons collaborated for what may well have been the first time, when Sonny Rollins was joined at his 80th birthday celebration by fellow ...