Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, 1949

Dave Brubeck Quartet

Onyx Collective are making beautiful jazz music on the Lower East Side, but they’ve garnered a number of celebrity fans and are recreating an important feeling of community in New York.

Speaking of music therapy, the free-spirited jazz can be medicine for your mind, with benefits from memory improvement to stress relief. Jazz Quartet consists of grand piano, trumpet, double bass and jazz drum. I would like to use LEGO bricks to express the musical vitality of the jazz band. When you look at this creation, the most familiar jazz improvisation will ring in your head.

55 illustrations. Tribute to Haruki Murakami and his book Portrait In Jazz.

Imagine this: You’re in a smoky club in 1940s Harlem, and on the stage, a quartet is tearing it up. The speed? Blistering. The rhythm? Unpredictable. The solos? Mind-blowing. This is Bebop – the rebellious teenager of the jazz world. #BebopJazz #JazzMusic #BebopLovers #JazzHistory #BebopLegends #JazzImprovisation #BebopInfluence #JazzCulture #BebopRevolution #JazzGreats

Sonny Rollins & The Modern Jazz Quartet at the August 31, 1958, Music Inn concert in Lenox, MA. (Photo: Clemens Kalischer)