Musician and educator Jay Sweet’s biography of jazz bassist Ray Brown (1926-2002) is the culmination of more than a quarter-century of dedicated study, with the author having won the Benny Carter Jazz ...

This year marks the birth centennial of two of the most influential frontmen jazz has ever known: John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Celebrations are taking place across the country, including at this ...

This is a collaboration of giants who swing so hard and with such incomparable assuredness that you simply cannot sit still when they are playing. And it all starts with Ray Brown. His huge, woody ...

Side A: How High The Moon; We'll Be Together Again Side B: Joy Spring; Daahoud Side C: I Like To Recognize The Tune; The Golden Striker; Patricia Side D: Pogo; The Music Box Suite (aka Daisy's Dream) ...

Legendary jazz bassist Ray Brown died in his sleep on Tuesday night in Indianapolis. He was 75. Born in 1926 in Pittsburgh, Pa., Brown began on piano and switched to bass during high school. Upon ...

2002 - Ray Brown, a legendary jazz bassist who played with giants Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, and his one-time wife Ella Fitzgerald in a career that spanned more than half a… By ...