Recorded five years before his passing earlier this year, The Truth: Heard Live at the Blue Note paints a picture of Elvin Jones before ill health weakened his powerful and individual style. With an ...

Size, as Like A Jazz Machine knows, isn't everything. The audience in the Centre Culturel Regionel Opderschmelz amounts to just four seated rows downstairs, with a small standing section to the rear, ...

When the Jazz Bakery announced that Elvin Jones was "back by popular demand" about eight months after his last gig, one thought, oh, OK, another well-worn cliche at work. Yet it sure looked as if ...

“Jazz on a Summer’s Day” is the name of the classic concert film shot at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. It’s also an apt description of Sunday afternoon’s concert by the Big Band Jazz Machine at the ...

Sometimes it pays to go back to the source, even in jazz, an art that tends to emphasize newness and innovation. And the performance of Elvin Jones’ Jazz Machine at the Jazz Bakery on Wednesday night ...

The Arlington High School Jazz Machine recently made its first appearance at a jazz festival and came home with a second-place award. The high school band took part in the ninth annual Mid-Atlantic ...

The Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine has been pumping up the Southern California scene since 1979, and "It’s About Time" features this large orchestra filled with top-flight soloists mining similar ...

The sounds of brass instruments have filled the air in Downtown Dickson, matching the increase in people going out around the county. The 19 members of local favorite band Highland Jazz Machine have ...