Jazz was really the music that facilitated integration among the races in this country and never got credit for it. Every picture tells a story. After mining for gold in the form of photographic ...

Bob Weinstock, who released some of the seminal jazz recordings of the 1950s on his independent Prestige label, died Saturday of complications from diabetes at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 77.

Several are the biographies of Gerry Mulligan, arguably jazz's most celebrated baritone saxophonist. None, however, have focused as specifically and as closely as this tome does on the quartets with ...

Look at the covers of all your favorite metal albums. While they’ll probably fall into a few different schools of design, you can bet not a single one looks like anything that came out of the 1950s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Wein, who set the standard for what outdoor music gatherings would become with his leadership of the Newport Folk and Jazz ...

Barry Harris, a Detroit-born jazz pianist and steadfast champion of bebop, died Dec. 8 at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, New Jersey. He was 91. Business partner and collaborator Howard Rees ...

From the 1920s to the 1950s, jazz clubs along Central Avenue in Los Angeles featured some of the world’s best musicians. July 18, 2020 4 AM PT ...