As a teenager in 1950s San Francisco, she had been on the brink of a singing career — just like Johnny Mathis, who was two ...

Italian composer Piero Piccioni was one of the most prolific musicians to emerge in the 1950s, working on movies like 'Camille 2000' and 'Le Mepris'.

About halfway through the second act on Sunday night at Jazz at Lincoln Center ... Then there’s Art Tatum’s version: He recorded a masterpiece solo piano performance in 1949 that, among other things, ...

This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny ...

The Many Dimensions of Dexter Gordon article by Arthur R George, published on February 6, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more ...

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born Oct. 21, 1917 in South Carolina, the youngest of nine children of Lottie and James ...

Here is a jazz tutorial to help improve the way you think about arranging standards. Using Have You Met Miss Jones, we build a solo piano arrangement ... Executed In The 1950s Mexico president ...

Richard Linklater’s broadway chamber piece looks back to a lost time and mourns a lost soul – Berlin Film Festival ...

The Joachim-Ma Stradivarius is regarded as one of the best violins the world has ever heard, and it's set to go on the ...

She posed the question to her elders in the jazz community, many of whom recalled dance being phased out of live jazz in the 1950s through ... and performing at the piano, she’ll be joined ...

Feb. 21, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, ...

George Gershwin called one of his early classic songs, first created by Fred and Adele Astaire, “Fascinating Rhythm”. It was ...