Fans loved the smooth sounds of jazz and catchy doo-opp tunes of the 1950s. This list includes the biggest artists of the ...

Richard Perry, whose many successes included Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" and a Ringo Starr album featuring all four ...

Just a few weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bing Crosby publicly broadcast “White Christmas” for the first time. After ...

Derek Ansell, who had written for Jazz Journal since the mid-80s, died suddenly, aged 90, on 13 December. He had reported a ...

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.

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

For jazz musicians and the community of listeners around them, it brought confirmation that improvisation is a life strategy. Peering in the rearview, my mind flickers to a moment from midyear ...

“We’ve both obviously always had a foot in the rock world and in the jazz world,” says bassist Devra Hoff of herself and her longtime friend, bassist-guitarist Ava Mendoza. “But what I ...

Surflight Theatre and the Stafford Township Arts Center are both hosting musical double-headers on New Year’s Eve, both paying homage to the music of the 1950s and mostly early ’60s. The former will ...

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 ...

To lure him out, you can always try leaving a trail of pages from a compelling screenplay that leads him right out your front door. The relationship at the heart of a new erotic thriller, starring ...

The 1950s have often been revisited in popular culture. Sometimes, it is nostalgic. Sometimes, it is directly opposing the idea that the 1950s were a time to be nostalgic for. Like any decade ...