In 1954 he was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, the first Jazz musician to be so honored. In the mid-1950s Bates and Dodge were respectively replaced by Eugene Wright and Joe Morello. Eugene ...
a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering jazz music and jazz education, will host a special evening event and performance to honor legendary jazz singer, Sheila Jordan. Jordan’s career began in ...
a pillar of Seattle jazz since the 1950s, held court with his weekly performances. "It became the family I needed," Davis said. Jazz musician Nate Omdal is the president of AFM Local 76-493, ...
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 ...
The 1950s music scene would challenge these simplistic ... which also included elements of jazz, soul, and gospel. Those innovations were recognized with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award ...
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.