My favorite Thelonious Monk quartet featured Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Monk on piano, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums. The group was recorded extensively on tour and in the studio ...

Jazz 625 is a BBC jazz music programme, featuring concerts by British and American jazz musicians, which was first broadcast between April 1964 and August 1966. The programe was created by Terry ...

Last night (Friday 3rd May, 2019) I was looking at the listings for one of my favourite TV channels, BBC 4. It's one of the UK's free to air digital channels, run by the BBC, and it's a place where ...

Lee Morgan was a fluid burner. His trumpet could be fleshy and warm on ballads and sharp and darting on up-tempo songs. His staccato-like lines grabbed your attention, but he resisted making the ...

Terry Henebery: he made no secret of his preference for jazz, and persuaded the likes of Oscar Peterson, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald to perform for the BBC - Popperfoto Terry ...

Duke Ellington (1899-1974) plays a piano during recording of the BBC television show 'Jazz 625' in London on 20th February 1964. Louis Armstrong performs on the Kraft Music Hall TV show at NBC Studios ...

A real treat for anyone who loves listening to the tinkling of the jazz piano with classics from Count Basie Thelonious Monk Oscar Peterson Abdullah Ibrahim Stan Tracey and Jacques Loussier to Duke ...