You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact ...

Avalon; Later; Ain't Misbehavin'; Mean To Me; Stairway To The Stars; Count Every Star; NIce Work If You Can Get It; There'll Never Be Another You; Blazin'; To Think You've Chosen Me; After You've Gone ...

Coming out of the depths of Stalinist influence, the decade’s music featured state-backed songs – quite exotic from today’s perspective – carrying communist messages about work, as well as rebellious ...

Both of these artists would come of musical age in the great jazz era of the 1950s, and they would both be heavily influenced by a pianist just a few years older-Bud Powell, who had been a jazz ...

Wahoo; ‘Round Midnight; This Time The Dream’s On Me; Dizzy Atmosphere; A Night In Tunisia; Move; The Street Beat; Out Of Nowhere; Ornithology; I’ll Remember April; 52nd Street Theme; Cool Blues; 52nd ...

Grammy-winning artist Samara Joy is 25, but critics say she reminds them of jazz royalty from the 1940s and 1950s. It isn't the music she grew up with, but Joy is making jazz her own.

Despite America dominating 20th Century jazz, Japan's Toshiko Akiyoshi made a name for herself with a her various big band pieces and numerous trio LPs.

A well-known figure on the jazz circuit in the late 1950s, Shorter is credited with shaping much of 20th Century jazz music. The 12-time Grammy award winner played alongside several greats ...