Roy Haynes was one of the last giants of modern jazz who was present at its birth. His eight decades of drumming spanned from the swing and bebop eras to the avant-garde. Haynes played with just about ...

Modern Drummer Magazine Announces All-Star Line-Up and New Location for 2008 Modern Drummer Festival Weekend. Modern Drummer Publications is proud to announce an unprecedented lineup of world- class ...

Sometimes circumstances just call for a good beating. Having gotten mine from a variety of masters at administering them, an explanation is probably in order before the politically correct crowd ...

Roy Haynes. American jazz drummer and bandleader has died. Born in 1925 in Roxbury, Mass., he influenced generations of jazz drummers and helped change the direction of rhythmic improvisation. Roy ...

The jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette has died. He was 83 years old. For decades, he collaborated with artists like Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett and Alice Coltrane. And he became a composer and band leader ...

Jack DeJohnette, the visionary drummer whose piano stylings became a force later in his career, died on October 26 in Kingston, N.Y.

Art Farmer, fluegelhorn; Jim Hall, guitar; Steve Swallow, bass; Walter Perkins, drums; Atlantic SD-1412 (stereo) and 1412 Formed in the summer of 1962, the Art Farmer quartet has become the most ...

Where has Charles Bell been all my life? Or, rather, where have his recordings been? Why did I only find out about them now? How have I only now, fifty-plus years after getting into jazz, stumbled ...

After earning her first Grammy nomination, Icelandic-Chinese singer Laufey is showing no signs of slowing down with twin sister Junia by her side Jenna Wang is an Editorial Intern at PEOPLE. Her work ...

Jazz was the language of the evening, as students from the University of Connecticut shared their knowledge with Berkshire ...