George Wein, who set the standard for what outdoor music gatherings would become with his leadership of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals from the 1950s into the 21st century, died Monday at his ...

American recording artist, singer and musician Little Richard performing live, UK, 27th June 1975. (Photo by Angela Deane-Drummond/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Photo by: Angela ...

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

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 ...

I was doing some research recently for a project I'm working on and happened to read an article that Jerry Wexler wrote for the Saturday Review in June 1950. Wexler, who would become a partner in ...

Renowned jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington dated a trombone player named Gus Chappell, and that explains some of her song “Big Long Sliding Thing.” She said her tune “Long John Blues” was about ...

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After Jeff Gold finished “Total Chaos: The Story of the Stooges/As Told By Iggy Pop” in 2018, he’d decided that “I’m, never doing another book again. It’s just too much work.” Obviously, the ...

LENOX — The first chapter of John Gennari’s book “The Jazz Barn” opens with a pilgrimage through the woods — a trio of kitchen workers searching in the night for a musical oasis in the Lenox hills.

You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, you might be surprised just how many music genres can trace their roots ...