Look at the covers of all your favorite metal albums. While they’ll probably fall into a few different schools of design, you can bet not a single one looks like anything that came out of the 1950s ...

Few Americans know much about it, but a radical midcentury revolution in jazz was born in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. Some of the most exciting and challenging (and forgotten) American music was ...

A few years ago, a reader from California named Charlie F. started a provocative discussion in the All About Jazz forums with the title: "I've decided not to buy any more Blue Note albums." Oh boy. He ...

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Bob Weinstock, who released some of the seminal jazz recordings of the 1950s on his independent Prestige label, died Saturday of complications from diabetes at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 77.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - In the Hungary of the 1950s, jazz music was a dangerous pastime - but music lovers got some clandestine help from the United States government. Jazz was a tool of U.S. Cold ...

George Wein, who set the standard for what outdoor music gatherings would become with his leadership of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals from the 1950s into the 21st century, died Monday at his ...

Ross Barbour, the last remaining original member of the influential 1950s jazz and pop harmony group the Four Freshmen, died Saturday in Simi Valley, Calif. He was 82. He had been suffering from lung ...

John Worster, a 1950s jazz bassist, listens in on a sound check at the Hyatt Regency Dallas on Jan. 10, 2014 for the band of Jim Widner, a close friend and mentee who uses the bass Worster can no ...