D.C. Native and saxophonist Herb Scott is a star on the Washington, D.C. Jazz scene. While studying at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts under the award-winning educator Davey Yarborough, he ...

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Herb Alpert has a new album that brings together lessons he says he's learned from playing the trumpet for over 80 years, specifically those times in which he says, a-ha. HERB ALPERT: I had problems ...

Growing up just outdside of Dallas, Texas, Ellis first heard the electric guitar performed by George Barnes on a radio show. This experience inspired him to take up the guitar, and he became ...

The beloved jazz guitarist and member of the Oscar Peterson Trio struggled with Alzheimer's in later life. By The Associated Press Herb Ellis, the critically acclaimed jazz guitarist who played with ...

The program recognizes gifted young jazz composers, defined as up to the age of 30. By Paul Grein The ASCAP Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2025 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards.

Easter Sunday this year saw the passing of Herb Wong, 88, a long-time Menlo Park resident renowned internationally as a jazz expert and educator. Wong had strong ties to Palo Alto — teaching jazz at ...

The ASCAP Foundation recognized twenty talented young jazz musicians this week, bestowing each of them with the 2021 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award for their original compositions and ...

The jazz world has lost one of its most influential guitarists. Herb Ellis died Sunday at the age of 88. Known for his nimble improvisations and bluesy playing, Ellis was the heartbeat of pianist ...

Herb Ellis, the critically acclaimed jazz guitarist who played with such luminaries as Ella Fitzgerald and was a member once of the celebrated Oscar Peterson Trio, died Sunday, his son said. He was 88 ...