Duke Pearson was an American jazz pianist and composer. All Music Guide notes him as being a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a producer. Born Columbus ...

If an artist stamps his jazz passport with any one of these labels--Blue Note, Verve, Milestone--it's pretty much a guarantee that you've arrived in style. Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson has traveled ...

I chose Duke Pearson as the subject for my Artist’s Choice based on the many things we have in common. We both have Southern roots; he was raised in Georgia and I was raised in South Carolina. We both ...

Add Us On i Make JazzTimes a preferred source and Google will show you more of our stories in Top Stories. Back in 2000, bassist-arranger Dave Post put together an 11-piece ensemble to play the music ...

July 29, 2008 • For all the jazz albums to be universally hailed as classics, many more deserve to be recognized as such. Here, arranger and Grammy-winning record producer Bob Belden picks five ...