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The most exciting jazz reissue of the year has been Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, a tape rescued from the forgotten bowels of the New York Public Library. It captures ...

She’s been at least intriguing since she first came on the scene as a fearless 27-year-old back in 2008, splashing new colors ...

Throughout his seven-decade career, the prolific drummer performed with Charlie Parker, Pat Metheny, Sarah Vaughan and more Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Jack DeJohnette, a beloved jazz drummer who excelled in bands fronted by Miles Davis, Charles Lloyd and Keith Jarrett, died Sunday. He was 83. DeJohnette died in a hospital in Kingston, New York. A ...

Jack DeJohnette, one of the most daring and dynamic jazz drummers of the last 60 years, with a loose-limbed yet exacting beat that propelled a limitless range of adventurous music, died on Sunday at ...

Jazz drummer Roy Haynes, pictured in 2000 at the Birdland Jazz Club in New York City, died Tuesday. (Jim Cooper / Associated Press) Roy Haynes, a jazz drummer and band leader whose skill and ...

(CNN) — Roy Haynes, one of the world’s most influential jazz drummers, has died at age 99. Haynes passed away in Nassau County, New York following a brief illness, his daughter Leslie Haynes-Gilmore ...

Roy Haynes, a prolific jazz drummer who had more than a seven-decade-long career, has died at the age of 99. Haynes’ daughter Leslie Haynes-Gilmore confirmed to The New York Times that the drummer ...