Duke Ellington, composer, arranger, pianist and originator of big-band jazz, wrote "Sweet Jazz O'Mine" in 1930 when the genre was blooming. As a bandleader, Ellington was unsurpassed. He chose his ...

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I hope you liked my haiku. Some say April is the cruelest month, but with its showers come National Poetry Month AND Jazz Appreciation Month. Dive into all the verse and jazz GBH has to offer, ...

Patricia Barber's newest hybrid of cocktail hour blues and lush vocals jazz is on ample display in Verse, and the result is must listening - and on all ten tracks. Barber's ability to play by her own ...

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Philip Bryant grew up on Chicago’s South Side in a working class neighborhood where parents wanted their kids to go to college instead of work in factories and steel mills. Bryant made it out of the ...

A rudimentary difference between blues and jazz is found in the flourishes and touches -- blues purists believe in 12-bar phrases and verse-chorus-verse; jazz relies on the toying with those ...

Continuing the age-old tradition of intertwining jazz improvisation and spoken word, Jazz Verse Jukebox is back with some heart felt music, poetry and lyrics! The evening will feature Hackney born ...