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

He was just about the last living embodiment of dressed-up 1950s cool, expressing himself ... This was a balancing act performed by many jazz musicians of the era, of whom being sharp-dressed ...

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 ...

During the early part of his career, Jennings recorded extensively with Louis Jordan, whose band had a big influence on R&B as ... In the 1950s, musicians who could play jazz, blues and R&B increased ...

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 ...

composer and saxophonist and one of the last-surviving orchestrators who shaped West Coast jazz in the early 1950s, died May 6 in his sleep of natural causes. He was 96. Influenced most by Gerry ...

New York, Nov 23: Longtime jazz drummer and composer Paul Motian, who came to prominence as a member of pianist Bill Evans' trio in the late 1950s and influenced a generation of musicians with his ...