Search results for

To many, autumn is the most pleasant season in which to visit New York: The sight of leaves turning colors and falling through Central Park is breathtaking. If you're daydreaming about New York, you'll need a soundtrack, courtesy of WDUQ.

Whenever he took the stage, audiences were guaranteed a musical spectacle. Half mystic, half visionary, the pianist and bandleader charted a relentlessly adventurous course through the jazz tradition.

The 50th annual festival, held in September 2007 on the jam-packed Fairgrounds at Monterey, had the excitement of a world-class event and the familiarity of a class reunion. Hear Dave Brubeck and his quartet in a concert performed for the world-famous jazz festival.

Over a 60-year career, Zawinul embraced many types of jazz, but came to define the style known as jazz-fusion with his influential band Weather Report, and its 1977 hit "Birdland." Zawinul died of cancer early Tuesday.

The jazz scene is abuzz about singer/pianist/composer John Proulx. His piano playing is hot and swinging, and his voice recalls the smooth mellow sounds of Chet Baker. He shows off his compositional skills, performing his own tune, "Stuck in a Dream with Me." Hear the performance.

Fresh Air's rock critic reviews Is It News, the new album from Texas blues musician Doyle Bramhall. The singer, songwriter and drummer has played in his own band, the Chessmen, and in Stevie Ray Vaughan's band.

Philadelphia native Adam Dorn, a.k.a. Mocean Worker, has assembled a collection of Manhattan's most revered underground soul, jazz and funk players to perform blissfully funky jazz rave-ups on his new album, Cinco de MoWo! Hear an interview and in-studio performance.

Bill Frisell's guitar sits front and center, teasing out references to gritty desert rock, and slinky upstroke strums of dub and reggae. Inventive studio tricks add languid, ethereal atmosphere.

Singer Tierney Sutton burst onto the scene in 1999 with rave reviews for her first solo album, Introducing Tierney Sutton. Five albums later, critics and fans continue to marvel at her delicate, reflective vocal style. Hear an interview and performance on Piano Jazz.

Since 2000, Dianne Reeves has won four Grammy's for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and that's record-setting in itself. So it is with the deepest respect and highest anticipation that Dee Dee Bridgewater introduces Dianne Reeves, at the 2006 Monterey Jazz Festival on JazzSet.