Jazz players

Sorry for the long gap between installments. Busy at work and in life. This time, there’s a simple, big point: Prodigious talents that never entered the public’s consciousness bec…

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Jazz Legend, Ron Carter!!!

Roy Hargrove - acclaimed pure jazz trumpeter who gained prominence in the late 1980s.

Miles Davis at Tanglewood, 1970, by Amalie R. Rothschild

Dancer Jeff Brown Photo Geoff Stern 1986

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (1925-2007) Courtesy William Smith Courtesy Paul Hoeffler Peterson redefined the jazz trio by bringing the musicianship of all three members to the highest level. The trio with Ray Brown and Herb Ellis was, in his own words, "the most stimulating" and productive setting for public performances as well as in studio recordings. In the early 1950s, Peterson began performing with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as the Oscar Peterson Trio. Shortly afterward the drummer Smith…

The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album, and calling jazz an international — not just an American — music.