Jazz History

Craft presents Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet as the latest release in its acclaimed Small Batch audiophile vinyl series. Released in 1958, Relaxin’ is regarded as the most

New Roy Hargrove Documentary to Premiere at Tribeca: The 2022 Tribeca Festival has announced the world premiere of Hargrove, a vérité style documentary chronicling the

The legendary Billy Cobham, with his matchless, dazzling, ambidextrous skills as a drummer, has applied the same insistent fervor to his long list of monumental

https://youtu.be/QN1G-vkJBcw You are the “World’s Greatest Jazz Bassist,” as a sign used to say at The Knickerbocker Saloon in New York City, where you and Cedar

Charlie Parker, the man they nicknamed ‘Bird’, was one of the most important figures in the development of jazz and in particular be-bop. His was

Born: 1917 Along with saxophonist Charlie Parker and pianist Bud Powell, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was one of the founding fathers of the 1940s bebop movement. Initially inspired by the swing era trumpeter Roy Eldridge, Gillespie developed a new