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

After cutting his teeth playing tenor in the hard bop scene of the late 1950s, he rose to fame as a central player in the evolution of post-bop jazz in the 1960s; through a series of solo albums ...

after joining the West Coast jazz scene in the early 1950s, with Andre Previn, Shelly Manne, Hampton Hawes, Billie Holiday, Ornette Coleman, and others. He also worked as a bassist in the TV and film ...

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 ...

Shining a light on the earliest female jazz pioneers, who were erased from music history.

Known for his distinctive gravelly voice and innovative use of the trumpet, Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was a defining figure of the 1950s jazz scene. Many still feel Armstrong’s charisma ...

Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927 in Algiers, Algeria) isa French jazz pianist and composer, who is probably mostwidely known for the music he wrote for Jean-Luc Godard'sdebut feature film À bout de ...

was a defining figure of the 1950s jazz scene. Many still feel Armstrong’s charisma through his emotive performance on tracks like “Hello, Dolly!” and “What a Wonderful World.” ...

By the middle of the 1950s, Baker had left Mulligan’s group ... and the best of them are potent examples of small-group jazz when competition in this area was very intense.