A concert at Town Hall this week that will be led by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra celebrates the legacies of Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Chico O’Farrill. By Ed Morales In the ...

The group at Jazz Standard this week is officially listed as the Jon Faddis Quartet, but the opening announcement on the early show on Wednesday night described it as the Jon Faddis Sextet, and to ...

In Dizzy Gillespie’s autobiography, To Be or Not to Bop, someone asked Chano Pozo, the Black Cuban conguero whose ’40s collaborations with the trumpeter gave birth to modern Latin jazz, how he and ...

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In 1945, after he and Charlie Parker had concluded the initial phase of the bebop revolution, Dizzy Gillespie fulfilled a lifelong wish by starting a big band. The time was certainly not propitious ...