Pianist Michel Camilo was born April 4, 1954 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Part of a musical family, Camilo started on the accordion before permanently switching to piano when he was nine. He received extensive classical training, developed fast, and at 16 was playing with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic. Attracted to […]

Gonzalo Rubalcaba:pJohn Patitucci:bJack DeJohnette:dsMt. Fuji Jazz Festival with Blue Note Pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba was born on May 27, 1963 in Havana, Cuba. With a twin passion for drums and piano, he began formal conservatory training on piano at nine and earned a degree in composition from Havana’s Institute of Fine Arts. Simultaneous with his classical […]

Pianist, keyboardist, composer and bandleader Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea was born on June 12, 1941 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Originally inspired by his father Frank Corea, who led a Dixieland band and introduced his son to bebop, Chick started playing piano when he was four. Bud Powell and Horace Silver were his early influences, followed later […]

Newport Jazz Festival 1988 Pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer Herbert Jeffrey “Herbie” Hancock was born April 12, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. Hancock’s classical piano training started at age 7 and at eleven he performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 26 in D Major with the Chicago Symphony. After a period of self-instruction and studies with jazz […]

John Coltrane A Love Supreme 1965 Part 1 – Acknowledgement 7.43 (00:00) Part 2 – Resolution 7.20 (07:42) Part 3 – Pursuance 10.42 (15:00) Part 4 – Psalm 7.05 (25:42) Tenor saxophone – John Coltrane Klavier – McCoy Tyner Bass – Jimmy Garrison Schlagzeug – Elvin Jones Saxophonist and composer John Coltrane was born on […]

Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz 1960 1. Come Rain or Come Shine – 3.19 2. Autumn Leaves – 5.23 3. Witchcraft – 4.30 4. When I Fall in Love – 4.52 5. Peri’s Scope – 3.10 6. What Is This Thing Called Love? – 4.32 7. Spring is Here – 5.02 8. Someday My Prince […]

Mile Davis – Kind Of Blue Full Album Concert Full HD Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959, on Columbia Records in the United States. High Quality Sound Audio FLAC Which Preserve Quality of Original Uncompressed Audio Sound Recording sessions for the album took place […]

Pianist McCoy Tyner passed away on Feb. 6, 2020 at the age of 81. Born Dec. 11, 1938 in Philadelphia, Tyner began seriously studying piano when he was 13 at the Granoff School of Music; his early influences included Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. Tyner worked when he was 17 in trumpeter Cal Massey’s band […]