These artists expanded the art form’s possibilities ... bandleader who played a pivotal role in popularizing jazz during the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Chicago in 1909, Goodman formed his big ...

Powell before that two years later in December of 1947 performing his arrangement of “Way Down Yonder In New Orleans,” at one of his last jazz recording dates in the 1940s; a musicians ...

In the 1940s, when most women singers adorned big bands as stage ... At home Vaughan played the family's upright piano and listened to the recordings of jazz artists Count Basie and Erskine Hawkins.

While he had been widely admired and respected in the late 1940s as a pioneering trumpeter ... Consider one of Howard McGhee around 1966. It is at the Newport Jazz Festival, and an unlikely group of ...

An umbrella term that describes several types of predominantly instrumental Afro-Cuban jazz music that developed in New York City starting in the late 1940s when American musicians like Dizzy ...

During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with ... was a virtuosic performer and one of the most influential artists in jazz history. His was truly a Wonderful World. A big-band jazz ...

He composed more standards than any other jazz artist save Duke Ellington. Monk gained a reputation as reclusive and elusive. In the early 1940s, he penned the piece he called “’Round Midnight ...

Notable early jazz musicians include Louis Armstrong ... Bebop, a fast tempo, complex sub-genre of jazz emerged from the 1940s, brought shining lights such as saxophone legends Charlie Parker and ...

On Sunday's Tree of Jazz we'll celebrate the jazz legends Lou Donaldson and Roy Haynes who passed away this week; and one of ...

CLARKSVILLE, TN − This fall, the Cumberland Winds Jazz Project is recreating an old-time radio show from the 1940s in a nod ...