he played alongside golden-age jazz greats like Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, and Quincy Jones, before co-leading a hard bop group called the Jazztet in the early 1960s; in the late 60s and early ...
After the 1960s, there would be no more superstars on the level of Coltrane and Miles ... Many lost their cabaret card, the live-music performers’ license issued by the New York Police Department.
During the early 1960s, Duke Ellington made many collaborative recordings with jazz greats. He paired up with Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus ...
As the drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mitch Mitchell was one of the greatest and most influential rock drummers of the 1960s. Mitchell's style was a blend of the abandon of someone like Keith ...
After a year in Boston with a steady gig at the Tic Toc club, he joined the great Billy Eckstine ... Coltrane's Giant Steps (Atlantic, 1960). Spring 2022 has already seen Charles Mingus' Trio (Jubilee ...