Throughout his seven-decade career, the prolific drummer performed with Charlie Parker, Pat Metheny, Sarah Vaughan and more ...

Early on he saw performances by many of the best jazz drummers in history, including Roy Haynes, Rashied Ali, Milford Graves, Billy Higgins, and Ed Blackwell. As a teenager in the mid-1960s, he played ...

Grammy-winning jazz drummer Lawrence Leathers, 37, died Sunday in New York City in an apparent domestic violence incident Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE.

This is FRESH AIR. Today is the centennial of the birth of jazz drummer Roy Haynes. He almost made it to the occasion. He died in November at age 99. Haynes was one of the most in-demand drummers ...

The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge has named renowned jazz drummer Troy Davis as the 2025 recipient of the Alvin Batiste Award. Davis will receive the award at 7:30 p.m. May 1, during the ...

Despite having learned classical piano since the age of three, Anna Fan Lai-wah first felt music’s magic when listening to jazz on her parents’ vinyl records. “They loved playing different ...