A native New Yorker, the largely unheralded Art Taylor was one of the founding fathers of hard bop drumming in the 50s. He performed with many of jazz’s major horn players (including Sonny ...

regarded as one of the most influential tenor saxophonists in jazz. Mr. Haynes played drums on “The Amazing Bud Powell,” a ...

When it did, the snappy bass and drums nicely tightened things without ... was a great example of fresh contemporary jazz built on a respect for heritage without becoming a mere pastiche of, say, hard ...