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

Please don’t call what Houston pianist Rob Landes does smooth jazz. Yes, it’s jazz, and yes, it’s smooth, but not that kind of smooth. More accurately, it’s swing with a dash of bebop. For today’s ...

2003-04-11 04:00:00 PDT New York-- Jutta Hipp, a jazz pianist from Germany who had a short, celebrated career in the 1950s, then turned her back on jazz to become a dressmaker, died on Monday at her ...

Jazz: In the 1950s and ’60s, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross set new standards for jazz vocal ensembles. The surviving members, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross, will reunite Friday in Symphony Center, 220 S.

Those less familiar with out-there jazz of the 1950s and ‘60s might not have a clue as to why Ornette Coleman, who died Thursday morning, was such a transformative American musician at that time, and ...