Coming out of the depths of Stalinist influence, the decade’s music featured state-backed songs – quite exotic from today’s perspective – carrying communist messages about work, as well as rebellious ...

Here are the general findings in jazz music: jazz styles such as swing and bebop are very fast in tempo free jazz - a style developed in the 1950s and 60s - involved players in the same ensemble ...

Jazz continues to evolve from its roots in African American music and is now a global style. Contemporary groups such as Snarky Puppy have pushed the boundaries of jazz in new directions using ...

While the trajectory of jazz laid out in Whiteman’s program was essentially white and symphonic, it also helped to establish the music’s role in elite commentary and consumption. 1957: By the 1950s, ...

The legacy of jazz came to life in the Averitt Center's recent performance, where The Jazz Legacy Project celebrated the ...

Although he studied drums in the Navy School of Music in Washington, there has never been anything militaristic about Paul Motian's prolific work as a jazz drummer. In the mid-1950s, he played with a ...