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AFP via Getty Images Originally published on December 31, 2020 1:57 pm French jazz pianist, bandleader and composer Claude Bolling, whose work spanned jazz clubs, the big screen, and Carnegie Hall, died Tuesday at the age of 90. His death was announced by his representatives. Americans knew Bolling best for a recording project with noted French flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal which contained Bollings sparkling "Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano." The album, which was released by CBS in 1975, rema...

When the Queen of Jazz came to Glasgow WHEN Ella Fitzgerald sang on a Glasgow stage in April, 1964, she was already the queen of jazz. This classy singer held the audience in the palm of her hand at the Odeon theatre that spring evening – and yet, twelve years earlier, her debut in the city had been an entirely different experience. This was not only her first Scottish performance, it was also her UK debut, having had to change her plans at the last minute. Instead of performing at th...

The reality is far more complicated ... Louis Armstrong. Photograph: Eliot Elisofon/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images The reality is far more complicated ... Louis Armstrong. Photograph: Eliot Elisofon/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images Casual listeners think of him as a gentle giant of jazz, but critics and African Americans often saw him as a sell out or ‘Uncle Tom’. A new book aims to show how radical ‘Pops’ really was EdPrideaux Thu 17 Dec 2020 05.08 EST Last modified o...

Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs, and Beethovens,” Jones told New Orleans Public Radio in 2013. Musical Beginnings Clifford Benjamin Brown was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on October 30, 1930, the youngest of eight children in a musical family that included his opera singer sister, Geneva. Brown started on trumpet at the age of 13. “From the earliest time, I can remember it was the trumpet that fascinated me,” Brown told jazz critic Nat Hentoff....