Gil Evans (1912-1988) was born Ivan Green. Following his nomadic mother, he ended up in California. In 1927 he bought his first Louis Armstrong rec...

As part of the 2002 week-long jazz festival, the Sarasota Jazz Club presented Don Scaletta’s Jazz Orchestra in a tribute to Stan Kenton. The mostly gray-haired crowd filed into Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall and hunkered down for the matinee of music.Before the Scaletta band appeared, vibraphonist Peter Appleyard performed with a quartet featuring Eddie Higgins on piano. Appleyard delighted the audience with his stories about Lionel Hampton and played some classic Hampton riffs, one with Appl