This is a collaboration of giants who swing so hard and with such incomparable assuredness that you simply cannot sit still when they are playing. And it all starts with Ray Brown. His huge, woody ...

Jazz Great Ray Brown Audio will be available later today. Bass legend Ray Brown, who played with Dizzie Gillespie and worked as the music director for Ella Fitzgerald, passed away in his sleep last ...

This article was corrected on July. 8, 2002. Ray Brown, the jazz bassist who redefined the way the instrument is played in bebop and swing while backing Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson and Ella ...