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 ...

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 ...

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 ...