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

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 ...

The early 1950s were a worrying time for Duke Ellington ... Coal miners and railroad workers came out on strike and jazz bands were banned by the American Federation of Musicians under its autocratic ...

It was the start of a musical career that would first lead him to fame as an arranger and writer in the jazz world of the 1950s, and on to the world of pop music and television and movies ...

But in the 1950's a new sound started coming out of ... You have people like Cal Tjader, and you have a whole host of other modern jazz musicians that congregated around Brubeck - it was almost ...

Created in 1950 to continue the tradition of Major Glenn Miller's Army Air Forces dance band, the current band consists of 18 active duty Airmen musicians including one vocalist. Through the years, ...

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 ...