Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis released Kind of Blue in August 1959, leading into the era of 60s improvisational jazz. The album featured Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans ...
A two-hour special show showcasing the music of Chick Corea on WMNF’s Colors of Jazz, Sunday, July 23, at 8 pm. ET. In his 60-year musical career, Chick Corea changed the sound of jazz with the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz musician John Coltrane plays in June 1966 at the Drome Lounge in Detroit. (Leni Sinclair / Getty Images) On Dec. 9, 1964, ...
The 1950s and early '60s were a high point for jazz. Jazz was popular. You could hear it on TV, on college campuses, and on US State Department tours. It was an era of mind-boggling creativity. Cool ...
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of more than 1,000 photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, ...
Most jazz fans know the art form has a deep history in the Bay Area, particularly beginning in the 1940s, when the Fillmore became known as the “Harlem of the West.” Perhaps less well known: One of ...
The Giants of Jazz 2LP reissue unites Frank Sinatra’s classic mid-’60s collaborations with Count Basie and Duke Ellington, newly remastered for vinyl. As a longtime record collector, I was admittedly ...
Preservation Hall Jazz Band performed at the Vilar Performing Arts Center when it first opened in 1998, so it’s fitting that the band, which celebrates its 60th anniversary, is also playing during ...
Composer Adrian Younge talks about being inspired by the spy-thriller sound of 60s and 70s jazz, what it's like being sampled and why his music has a cinematic feel.
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