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.

Jazz was really the music that facilitated integration among the races in this country and never got credit for it. Every picture tells a story. After mining for gold in the form of photographic ...

The 1950s brought a warmth to American living rooms that no television screen could match. Families gathered around their ...

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 ...

For American jazz lovers looking to branch out, Europe offers a bonanza of recordings by gifted greats from the continent in the 1950s and '60s. As readers of this blog know, this is particularly true ...

You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, you might be surprised just how many music genres can trace their roots ...

Reporting from Johannesburg — Legendary South African jazz musician and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Masekela has died at 78 after a decade-long fight with cancer, according to a statement from his ...