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 ...

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.

Austin, Texas - Austin-based jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton leads a new All Miles 1950s show with the Jeff Lofton Quintet, Thursday, April 24, at the Elephant Room. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. with no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 shows former Hungarian trumpet player Ervin Vaszondi. He was one of the musicians whose ...

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 ...

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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 ...