Few Americans know much about it, but a radical midcentury revolution in jazz was born in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. Some of the most exciting and challenging (and forgotten) American music was ...

The 1950s brought a warmth to American living rooms that no television screen could match. Families gathered around their ...

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.

For American jazz lovers looking to branch out, Europe offers a bonanza of recordings by gifted greats from the continent in the 1950s and '60s. As readers of this blog know, this is particularly true ...

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 ...

Austin, TX: NPR affiliate KUT describes jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton as “... a veritable jazz virtuoso. Comparisons are frequently made to Miles Davis - and rightfully so." Jazz fans can experience this ...

The Christmas movie season will see “Wonder Woman 1984,” “Promising Young Woman,” and “One Night in Miami” heading to theaters while “Soul” lands on Disney+ and “The Midnight Sky” launches on Netflix.

Reporting from Johannesburg — Legendary South African jazz musician and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Masekela has died at 78 after a decade-long fight with cancer, according to a statement from his ...