Exactly 100 years ago this winter, two recordings features Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet marked the triumph of New ...

and the soprano-saxophonist Sidney Bechet, four years Armstrong’s senior. They were brought together by band leader/pianist Clarence Williams of Plaquemine, Louisiana, and joined by New ...

Altoist and multi-instrumentalist Jimmie Lunceford drilled his band throughout the 30s in a gruelling nationwide schedule of ...

Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins and Eddie Condon. Gabler is the uncle of actor Billy Crystal, who has lauded his uncle for his contributions to music history. Crystal’s father Jack worked as a ...

Evan Christopher began playing clarinet in junior high school in Long Beach, CA. His first introduction to New Orleans music ...

A North Jersey band will be defending its title, and another North Jersey band will be challenging it, at this year's ...

Jazz virtuoso Scott Robinson brings his unique '10 By Sax' performance to Pittsfield’s 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival.

Aurora Nealand was recently praised as one of the top ten soprano saxophonists in America by Downbeat Magazine. She grew up in an eccentric family on the California coast and then Colorado, listening ...

The band consisted of 27 black musicians and 19 singers, many of which were from Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Antigua, Ghana, and the U.S., this included: Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet on the ...

The Jazz House Kids are doing two Ellingtons — his arrangement of W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" (vocals by Zuri McCune) and "Portrait of Sidney Bechet" (Ben Sherman on tenor sax ...