Someone once asked Terry Gibbs how it was possible that if you took his side men, or some subset of them, and put them together in another band, they never quite sounded as good. Gibbs replied, ...

Back in the early 1970s bassist Buddy Clark and saxophonist Med Flory conceived a brilliant idea: to form a group (primarily a reed section with rhythm) that would use orchestrated arrangements of ...

When alto saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, whose playing transformed the post-WWII jazz world, died in 1955, graffiti began to appear on urban walls across the country: “Bird Lives.” That phrase ...