In the history of jazz, there are relationships between two musicians as performers, composers, or arrangers, or all combined. Seminal examples include George and Ira Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Harold Land and Bobby Hutcherson, and Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Saunders. Yet,...
Articles from February 2025
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Clark Terry: A stylistically distinct, peerless trumpeter dedicated to mentoring
Often, the relationship of a legendary jazz musician to his or her developing gifted pupils reveals the reputation and assigned importance of their influence. Clark Terry, on the shortlist of any jazz musician or scholar’s evaluation of seminal trumpeters (including the flugelhorn), would also be remembered for his advocation,...
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Miles Davis: Forefront of all jazz genres in a lifetime
Miles Davis stands, to many jazz scholars, jazz historians, and critics, as arguably the most influential jazz musician and composer in the post-World War II modern period. Jazz as a genre is a mélange of subcategories developed over 100-plus years of evolution, with a variety of essential musical contributors....
