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

Wayne Shorter was a key figure in popularizing the soprano saxophone, recording indelible albums for Blue Note Records.

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 ...

The 1920s, often called the “Jazz Age,” was a significant period for jazz music, characterized by the emergence of influential artists who shaped the genre. This decade saw the rise of Louis ...

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 ...

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.

Some jazz musicians spend their whole lives within this network, perhaps never venturing away because it fulfills them enough, because the pivot to some kind of celebrity musicianship is no more ...

Inspired by such artists as Nat King Cole, the Isley ... 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 ...

She has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Brad Mehldau ... Listening back to the history of the 'jazz with strings' sub-genre--the shot across the bow, Charlie Parker With Strings (Verve, ...