Alvin Fielder helped found the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago, worked for the Nixon Administration and spent much of his life running the family drug store.

Two deaths in early January, of percussionist Alvin Fielder and multi-instrumentalist/poet/dramaturge Joseph Jarman, help remind us that artists' lives shouldn't be ...

The digital revolution has been kind to some of jazz's unsung elders, and Edward "Kidd" Jordan is tops among them. Small labels around the world are capturing and digitizing players who might not ...

Eminent avant-garde saxophonist Edward "Kidd" Jordan doesn't venture outside the New Orleans area that often, but like- minded artists will occasionally make the trip to the Big Easy to unite in the ...

Jackson - Alvin L. Fielder, Jr., 83, passed away Jan. 5 in Jackson, MS. He was born Nov. 23, 1935, in Meridian, MS. His parents were the late Alvin L. Fielder and Carrie Sue Butler Fielder. Alvin was ...

labotanica's "They, Who Sound" music series wrangles in drummer Alvin Fielder to perform a set on Christmas Eve. A holiday party potluck will take place before the drummer's performance with quartet ...

The deaths of two foundational members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a forward-thinking Chicago jazz collective,... Two deaths in ...