You’d pretty much have to be dead not to like “Doo Wop Shoo Bop,” the Black Ensemble’s harmonic, frenetic, unrelenting salute to the music of the 1950s. How can you resist a show that’s pretty much a ...

This essay challenges the received wisdom that teenpix of the 1950s were dominated by a soundtrack of rock 'n' roll. I argue that this cycle of film production was marked by a diversity of musical ...

Twice a year fans of Rock and Roll, Rockabilly, Rockin' Blues the 1950s and Americana gather at Seacroft Holiday Camp in Hemsby, England to dress up in period clothing and re-live the 50's. Every day ...

DOVER, Del. – Jazz musician Donald Byrd, a leading hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950s who collaborated on dozens of albums with top artists of his time and later enjoyed commercial success with hit ...

Fonzie look-a-likes, 1957 Chevys and jitterbug tunes will spin Fox Lake Park into a 1950s extravaganza Friday night. Summerfest ’86, a one-night throwback to the 1950s and 1960s, will feature shows, ...

Donald Byrd, an exceptional jazz trumpeter associated with the “hard bop” school of jazz exemplified by the Blue Note record label during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, died February 4. The ...