Jazz Legend

The first edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival took place in 1976 in the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague. Some numbers in those ear...

The modern orchestral clarinet is widely considered one of the most versatile of all modern instruments. Its ancestor is the chalumeau, from...

Bebop , also called bop, the first kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940s. It was a st...

Founded in 1954, the Newport Jazz Festival was the first annual jazz festival in America. It has been host to numerous legendary performanc...

"Bent" trumpet was the trademark trumpet of Dizzy Gillespie. It featured a bell which bent upward at a 45-degree angle rather t...

Jazz bass is the use of the double bass to improvise accompaniment and solos in a jazz or jazz-fusion style. The double bass began being us...

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