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

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 ...

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 ...

Guy Tal, in the On Landscape article that refers most to Jazz also suggests that there is more to the process when it comes ...

Pianist Bill Evans' career lasted from the late 1950s until his passing in 1980 ... New York City school system at the age of eleven and at age thirteen went to the New York City High School of Music ...

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.