Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi overcame numerous challenges during her long career, immigrating to a new country, establishing herself as both a top bandleader and composer/arranger, in addition to the ...

Zoot Sims took me to meet Coleman Hawkins and I saw a man who was only 60 years old who wanted to die. He had been the king and then other people rose to prominence, like Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz ...

Remembering Bud (Toshiko Akiyoshi, Evidence). The Carnegie Hall concert recording is a must. It features Toshiko Akiyoshi leading her band from piano, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and her husband, Lew ...

Lew Tabackin, tenor saxophonist and flutist, performs with the Kent Hewitt Trio tonight at 8:30 as part of the Celebrity Jazz Series at Brown Thomson restaurant, 942 Main St., Hartford. Tabackin has ...