Jazz

Photographer Frank Kuchirchuk Donates Rare 1950s Jazz Photographs to Oberlin

OBERLIN, OHIO -- Frank Kuchirchuk, a retired photographer who took live performance photographs of some of the greatest jazz artists during the height of their careers, has donated his entire ...
Jazz

The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950’s from Robert Gordon’s “Jazz West Coast”

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 ...
American Songwriter

3 Songs From the 1950s That Will Instantly Turn You Into a Fan of Early R&B

In the 1950s, music was morphing and changing. Earlier in the century, jazz and ragtime roused crowds from coast to coast. But those styles started to change. Enter: R&B music, which later helped to ...
BBC

Three trailblazers of 1950s and 60s British jazz

This week, ‘Round Midnight joins in on the BBC’s The Music Is Black season, in collaboration with the V&A East in London. Show more This week, ‘Round Midnight joins in on the BBC’s The Music Is Black ...
KSL

Hungarian musicians recall secret jazz recordings from 1956

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