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Roy Haynes, who has died aged 99, was one of jazz’s greatest drummers, a maestro of bebop with the crisp, rapid snare and cymbal patterns that earned him the nickname of “Snap Crackle”; he played with ...

Wardell Gray was 28 when he wrote “Twisted,” and the bebop classic is still hip after all these years. He graduated from Cass Tech in Detroit which, like DuSable High in Chicago, was an incubator of ...

Is jazz showing its age? (From the July, 1996, issue of The Atlantic Monthly.) A selective guide to jazz sites on the Web. It isn't just the generation gap between today's most popular jazz musicians ...

With his book about the emergence of bebop, writer Kenny Mathieson has performed a necessary service for the casual jazz fan, along with enough solid information to please the fastidious and musically ...

While it’s certainly a hard-fought battle, for my money there’s no better anime in the canon than Cowboy Bebop. A nearly perfect 26-episodes (and a movie), the series combined elements of space opera, ...

The following is an excerpt from the "Lennie Tristano: The Passionate Intellectual" chapter of Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian American Experience by Bill Dal Cerro and David ...