(New York, NY) - V.I.E.W. Video, a leading home video label and producer of jazz, performing arts, and pop music programs, announced the January 2008 DVD release of Elvin Jones: Jazz Machine. It would ...

Accompanied by a respected team of musicians (Jesse Sadoc, trumpet and flugelhorn; David Feldman, piano; Jefferson Lescowich, acoustic bass), Rio de Janeiro drummer Alfredo Dias Gomes released Tributo ...

Jones was considered one of the most influential drummers in jazz history. He died Tuesday at the age of 76. He was best known for his work with John Coltrane. He also toured with bassist Charles ...

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Elvin Jones, 76, the drummer who lit the rhythmic fire under the transcendental jazz of saxophonist John Coltrane, died May 18 at a hospital in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. He had a heart ailment. In his ...

In 1968, drummer Elvin Jones, who had recently left the legendary John Coltrane quartet, formed a pianoless trio to record a classic date for Blue Note records called “Puttin’ It Together.” Jones, a ...

“Is the drummer always that loud?” a displeased Lincoln Center subscriber asked me during intermission of a concert featuring Elvin Jones with Wynton Marsalis about 10 years ago. “I’ve heard him be a ...

Back in 1991, when saxophonist Ravi Coltrane first moved to New York City to play with renowned jazz drummer Elvin Jones, he didn’t harbor any lofty aspirations of becoming an overnight sensation. In ...