Jazz was really the music that facilitated integration among the races in this country and never got credit for it. Every picture tells a story. After mining for gold in the form of photographic ...
Grammy-winning historian and author Jeff Gold noticed something when he received more than 200 exclusive images from a newly discovered photo archive of American jazz clubs from the 1940s and 1950s, ...
“In my humble opinion,” says Artie Dicks in the velvet voice that got him the bass position in the Ink Spots, “it was the best music America produced and ever will produce.” The songs of the late ...
The history of Arizona music is the story of a myriad of different scenes and sounds and players spanning countless generations while appealing to their own specific niches both in Arizona and in many ...
Georgia Gibbs, who died Saturday at 87, was a versatile “girl singer” who started off fronting big bands in the 1930s and eventually had hits as a solo artist, beginning with “If I Knew You Were Comin ...
John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, and the musical idea / David W. Bernstein -- Cultural intersections : John Cage in Seattle (1938-1940) / Leta E. Miller -- No ear for music : timbre in the early ...