There had been a very vibrant modern jazz movement back in New York ... been about taking the less aggressive aspects of the music and making a style out of that. Now, there have always been ...

Staff Writer On Nov. 23, the Sunderman Conservatory hosted a jazz ensemble concert performed by thirteen students, featuring ...

Roy Haynes, the pioneering jazz drummer who performed with legends like Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Sarah Vaughan, died ...

During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of lightning-fast improvisation meant for serious ...

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Billie Holiday was peerless when it came to conveying the emotion in a song In the 1940s, the swing era gave way to what was then known as “modern jazz” – the so-called bebop innovations of ...