American recording artist, singer and musician Little Richard performing live, UK, 27th June 1975. (Photo by Angela Deane-Drummond/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Photo by: Angela ...
This file photo from 1956 shows singer Teresa Brewer.Brewer, who topped the charts in the 1950s with hits like "'Till I Waltz Again with You," died Wednesday Oct. 17, 2007. She was 76. Singer Teresa ...
Originally published in London in 1986 by Quartet Books LTD, Bob Gordon's seminal work on the jazz styles and groups that developed primarily in Los Angeles in the 1950s has long been out-of-print and ...
In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...
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Barry Harris, a Detroit-born jazz pianist and steadfast champion of bebop, died Dec. 8 at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, New Jersey. He was 91. Business partner and collaborator Howard Rees ...
You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, you might be surprised just how many music genres can trace their roots ...