On this day – March 28 – in 1932, Germaine Bazzle entered the world immersed in music. The jazz singer, with a unique scat, ...
Who were the three women in the iconic 1958 photo known as "A Great Day in Harlem"? All three left their mark on the music in ...
You have people like Cal Tjader, and you have a whole host of other modern jazz musicians that congregated around Brubeck - it was almost a Brubeck school. SMITH: So, was Dave Brubeck the pioneer ...
Modern Future blends EDM, pop, and trap into their own unique sound. Coming from both rock, jazz and hip hop backgrounds ... head-turning and electrifying tracks. Their music has been equated to "the ...
During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of lightning-fast improvisation meant for serious ...
With the deep influence of classic artists such as Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin, and modern-day music ... Folk music, the blues and jazz all developed as their own form ...
As a social-media-savvy artist who always sought to make such genres more accessible to a modern audience ... with classical music. Later on, she would develop a taste for jazz after combing ...
In homage to “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith, Mayfield delivered a performance of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” that was as ...
Hall's genius with a guitar had profound implications for the jazz band format, as six-strings replaced piano in the rhythm section ...
In this case, quite a lot as it happens. The Cool School included musicians like Chet Baker, John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Dave Brubeck. Under the guidance of arranger and composer Gil ...