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 ...

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 ...

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

While he had been widely admired and respected in the late 1940s as a pioneering trumpeter, the unspoken judgment was that it was his misfortune to come to prominence when Dizzy Gillespie ... A ...

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 ...

Join us for an unforgettable evening of 1940s Christmas glamour as Beverley Alexander returns by popular demand! After last year’s success, Beverley is back to serenade you with classic jazz ...

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 ...

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 ...