The all-day event featured performances from eight local junior high and high school jazz bands as well as the Grays Harbor ...

This article was first published at All About Jazz in January 2002. Jazz piano and world music rhythm make an enchanting pair. With the popularization of world beat music, jazz musicians nurtured on ...

The legend goes like this: In 1930, jazz drummer Lionel Hampton was performing a gig at the NBC studios. In those days, and for a long time to come, the sound that identified NBC was three notes ...

Lionel Hampton, the irrepressible bandleader who played with an infectious joy that captivated fans around the world and, in the process, gave the vibraphone a lasting place on the jazz bandstand, ...

Bobby Hutcherson, a vibraphonist whose improvising and composition helped to define modernity for jazz as a whole, has died. He had long struggled with emphysema. He was 75. As a mallet percussionist, ...

There’s something about the vibraphone that leads its practitioners to prioritize melody. Not that Joel Ross and his quintet didn’t fill Blues Alley with harmonic and rhythmic creations on Tuesday ...

Jazz music is very much alive in the heart and soul of local teenagers looking to continue the genre's legacy as musicians. "Jazz is a really great form of music that allows someone like me to put ...

Chad Taylor and Smoke Shifter at the Jazz Gallery article by Dave Kaufman, published on January 12, 2026 at All About Jazz.