In 1969, trumpeter Shorty Rogers stopped recording. He was simply too busy to keep up with the practicing necessary to handle the endurance of a studio session. The flood of work in Hollywood ...

Sunday, April 14, will mark the 100th anniversary of Shorty Rogers' birth. The trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and arranger who was a founding father of West Coast jazz died in 1994 from melanoma ...

Never done before in NEPA, this unique special concert will highlight 17 incredible musicians and narrator/ vocalist The musicians are regular members of the Scranton Jazz Festival Big Band with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Reach Publishing Services Limited (Reach Publishing Services Limited) Tributes have been pouring in after an Edinburgh ...

The family of a legendary Edinburgh musician who was the original singer of a chart-topping swinging 60s group have paid tribute to him, after he passed away last week. Did you know with a Digital ...

THE long and the short of it is that Shorty Rogers - singer and entertainer - stands 6ft 3in in his cowboy socks and is never short of a quip, writes John Gibson. Did you know with a Digital ...

Whole books have been written about the difference between the East Coast and West Coast schools of modern jazz, but an early-'50s snapshot reproduced in this four-disc set's booklet says it all: ...