Jazz History

While reading, listen to Billie Holidays "Deep Song".Human suffering has the ability to kindle the flames that forge art. Love that has been misguided,...

Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington...these names are synonymous with jazz, and their brilliance shines bright.There...

Bill Dobbins is an extraordinary jazz pianist with a spectacular ability to convincingly sound like ANY other jazz pianist.  These are two of the...

2015 has been a tough year for jazz.  We lost Clark Terry, Ornette Coleman, Lou Soloff, Jazz Crusader saxophonist Wilton Felder, and now jazz just...

When people come up to me and ask: "What jazz musicians should I check out?" or "If I want to get into jazz, which...

When learning how to play jazz, what could be more important than knowing where it came from in the first place?  To understand this...

This is the seventh and final lecture in Brent Jensen's series of lectures on Jazz History.Brent Jensen is a professor of jazz studies at...

This is the sixth video in our series featuring Brent Jensen's lectures on jazz history.  Brent teaches jazz at the College of Southern Idaho...

This video is the fifth in a series of lectures on jazz history. Brent Jensen is a saxophonist on the Origin record label. He...

This is the fourth in a series of video lectures by saxophonist Brent Jensen about the History of Jazz.  Brent is a professor of jazz...