Dee Dee Bridgewater turns 76 as the Grammy-winning jazz and funk icon continues touring, mentoring artists and releasing ...
*Larry & Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell enjoyed an out-of-nowhere run in the `70s as producers of loosely arranged musical nuggets that felt good, painted in broad strokes lyrically, and became bedrock ...
On Tuesday, July 22, Grammy-winning Jazz musician Chuck Mangione peacefully passed away in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York, according to Rochester First, which reported the news today.
Rufus Harley, 70, known as the world’s first and only jazz bagpipe player, died Aug. 1 of prostate cancer in Philadelphia. Harley played several instruments in his youth -- mostly the saxophone -- but ...