A few months ago, she purchased “The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn,” a live album recorded in 1956 at a thrift store. In place of the smooth sounds of jazz, she instead was greeted by ...

and the moody and probing sounds of his current quartet, intact for more than 20 years — doubles as a vivid portrait of the evolution of modern jazz. Could the young Billy Hart, growing up in ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

Over the years he's seen the the Modern Jazz Quartet and Ella Fitzgerald. After cutting his teeth on hospital radio, he was offered two hours a week to present a jazz programme on a local ...