Billy Higgins will always be ranked high on any list of the greatest drummers in jazz. He emerged to widespread attention when Ornette Coleman's ground-breaking quartet arrived in New York from ...

Is it spring or the waning days of autumn? The festivals are getting underway, so it must be spring. Yet it feels like a shivery October in the realm of jazz mortality, as every passing week brings ...

Billy Higgins, Master Drummer, Dies at 64Billy Higgins was reportedly the most recorded jazz drummer in history. He played with such greats as Dexter Gordon, Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, John ...

As we observe the 35th anniversary (Feb. 19) of the death of the talented trumpeter who would also become the major player in one of American music's more noteworthy Frankie and Johnny stories, the ...

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