Saxophonist/composer Geof Bradfield’s new CD Melba!, which Origin Records will release on April 16, has been a long time coming. Bradfield’s suite for jazz septet, a tribute to the great yet ...

Not long ago, when musicians needed good charts, they called Melba Liston. Now, saxophonist Geof Bradfield and his ensemble offer the radio... Not long ago, when musicians needed good charts, they ...

She cut her teeth as a trombonist in the big bands of Gerald Wilson and Dizzy Gillespie and scored classic records for Marvin Gaye and others.... Melba Liston: Bones Of An Arranger One of the few ...

Born in 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri, Melba Liston had an early interest in music. She saw a trombone when she was young and was taken by its beauty. Her family encouraged her interest in music and ...

You’d think that any jazz musician who wrote for Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Billy Eckstine and Randy Weston – and also played trombone for Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones and Gerald Wilson – would be ...

In the early 1990s, the late trombonist-arranger Melba Liston lived with her three aunts in a stately, old home in Los Angeles’ West Adams neighborhood. Though she had recently suffered a stroke, she ...

It was a great weekend for jazz composition, as two noteworthy Chicago musicians showed their skills with a pen, as well as a horn. Saxophonist Geof Bradfield already had caught listeners’ attention ...

In the early 1980s, pianist Dee Spencer’s astonishing and unanticipated encounter with Melba Liston introduced her to a jazz wonderland. A first-call trombonist best known as the arranger of choice ...

Measured by the size and scope of her musical contributions, Melba Liston is singularly qualified for the lead spot in SFJazz’s celebration of Women’s History Month. The trombonist-arranger came out ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Join the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Sextet in a performance of Melba Liston’s composition “Now, Ain’t It” in celebration of Women’s History ...

October 10, 2013 • Not long ago, when musicians needed good charts, they called Melba Liston. Now, saxophonist Geof Bradfield and his ensemble offer the radio premiere of a suite commissioned by ...

Feb 27: The R&B band The Suffers begins every show by thrusting their arms in the air, and then they earn that championship gesture with great shows. These are 10 very good musicians who’ve been ...