NEW YORK — John Coltrane's saxophone. Dizzy Gillespie's bent trumpet. Lionel Hampton's vibraphone. These were among a treasure trove of 450 pieces of jazz memorabilia that will be auctioned today.

Rebellious jazz took flight in Harlem at Minton’s Playhouse, but it was nurtured on the tree-lined streets that gave pioneering Black musicians a home. Dizzy Gillespie during a photo session in ...

The legacy referred to here is that of Dizzy Gillespie. At the dawn of bebop, Gillespie unveiled an exuberant style forged in the heat of artistic revolution and gleaming with virtuosity. It might ...

"There is a lot of speculation about the 'origin and development of Be-pop harmonic improvisation.' Coming home from the superb Jazz Kitchen program presented by the Jared M.Thompson Ensemble, I ...