• Bud Freeman (sax, tenor) - 1906
• Lawrence "Bud" Freeman was known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. His smooth and full tenor sax style with a hea...
• Teddy Charles (vibes) - 1928
• Teddy Charles (b. Theodore Cohen, 1928), along with Milt Jackson and Terry Gibbs, extended the legacies of Lionel Hampton and Red Norvo and establishe...
• Eddie Marshall (drums) - 1938
• Coming from a family of musicians in Springfield Massachusetts, Eddie Marshall is acknowledged as a leading figure in the evolution of San Francisco's...
• Al Green (vocals) - 1946
• The title of Al Green's Lay It Down truly tells it like it is. Conceived as a collaboration between the soul legend and a handful of gifted young admi...
• David Kane (piano) - 1955
• David Kane was born in Scotland in 1955 and is a dual national of the US and UK. He started composing and playing piano at the age of eight. After mov...

• Vijay Iyer: Solo
• Pianist Vijay Iyer's Historicity (ACT Music, 2009) was among the spellbinders of its year, a 10 track trio album, one half originals, one half covers....
• Dave Wilson Quartet: Spiral
• Saxophonist Dave Wilson was previously a member of two Dave Stahl groups, also playing with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell and Lew Soloff a...
• Peter Bernstein: Live at Smalls
• A live recording from an intimate venue--in this case, the well-respected Greenwich Village club, Smalls--is like comfort food.. Live at Smalls, from ...
• Suresh Singaratnam: Lost In New York
• Born in Zambia but brought up in Toronto, Canada, trumpeter Suresh Singaratnam is formally trained in both jazz and classical music, latterly at the M...
• Ratko Zjaca: Continental Talk
• When a group's credentials include bassist John Patitucci, drummer Steve Gadd and trumpeter Randy Brecker, it's not an unreasonable expectation to hea...

• INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Hank Jones
• All About Jazz is celebrating Hank Jones' birthday today! Hank JonesThe oldest of the three Jones brothers (Hank, Thad and Elvin), Henry "Hank" Jones...
• WEB/TECH: Death of the Phone Call
• We're moving, in other words, toward a fascinating cultural transition: the death of the telephone call. This shift is particularly stark among the yo...
• WEB/TECH: Ipad Popular with Aviation Crowd in Oshkosh
• Apple's iPad continues to find a very receptive audience in the aviation community. This week at Airventure, a number of companies are offering applic...
• TV/FILM: Hans Zimmer Extracts the Secrets of the a€~inceptiona€(TM) Score
• Having systematically picked apart the critical arguments for and against Christopher Nolan's film "Inception" and the many possible meanings of that ...
• FESTIVAL/CRUISE: New York's White Light Festival Fuses Spirit, Sound
• The Lincoln Center's Jane Moss created the new program with the goal of countering the hectic pace of modern life. Bach, dancing monks and a performan...