Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis released Kind of Blue in August 1959, leading into the era of 60s improvisational jazz. The album featured Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans ...

Leave it to director Steven Soderbergh and composer Thomas Newman to go retro ’60s with the music for their fourth collaboration, “Let Them All Talk.” Accompanying Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Commodores perform at the Ohio Valley Kool Festival in 1985. The Cincinnati Music Festival, 60 years old this year, has ...

Social activism and jazz have a long mutual history that arguably reached an apex with the resistance music of the '60s. On record, that music found a home at labels such as Impulse! and ESP-Disk. At ...

There seems to be a fresh discovery of an obscure gem every month. Not that I am complaining, especially with this release from the Fontana vaults. Presenting Jazz Quintet 60 is the last of the very ...

The music in the '60s evolved immensely, and with it, album cover art. Here's a look at stand-out album covers from each year ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of more than 1,000 photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, ...

The forecast for the first three days of August, 2014 called for cloudy skies with a 100% chance of incredible jazz performances in Newport, Rhode Island, the site of the 60th edition of “The ...

Fender’s Jazz Bass is one of the iconic, go-to basses for players, with a sound that can be found on countless recordings across jazz, funk, soul, blues, classic rock and heavy metal since it was ...