Willem Breuker's music is an experience—part circus, part orchestra, part theater. The man himself is no less complex and some of his thoughts on being a musician bely his humour and good nature. At ...

The picture on the back of the CD booklet for the Willem Breuker Kollektief's At Ruta Maya Café shows a low-lying, nondescript building that looks like an old Howard Johnson's. The website for the ...

Willem Breuker, a Dutch composer, multireedist and band-leader whose jump-cut style and theatrical panache made him a contrarian hero of European jazz, died July 23 in Amsterdam. He was 65. His death ...

Even before the 1927 premiere of the first “talkie,” The Jazz Singer, sound was integral to the flicker of celluloid. Pianists would accompany serials at matinees, and pit orchestras would provide ...

Free improvisation, game strategies, and the tonal delights of Ellington, Monk, and Nichols synergize merrily in the daring alchemy of this ten-piece group founded in 1967 by drummer Hans Bennink, ...