Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis released Kind of Blue in August 1959, leading into the era of 60s improvisational jazz. The album featured Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of more than 1,000 photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, ...

A two-hour special show showcasing the music of Chick Corea on WMNF’s Colors of Jazz, Sunday, July 23, at 8 pm. ET. In his 60-year musical career, Chick Corea changed the sound of jazz with the ...

The 1950s and early '60s were a high point for jazz. Jazz was popular. You could hear it on TV, on college campuses, and on US State Department tours. It was an era of mind-boggling creativity. Cool ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz musician John Coltrane plays in June 1966 at the Drome Lounge in Detroit. (Leni Sinclair / Getty Images) On Dec. 9, 1964, ...

Generations of Yale alumni filled the home of Samuel Moyn, Grace Hopper’s head of college, to listen to the sounds of swing and bossa nova on Monday evening. The “Before Woodstock: Love Songs of the ...

Most jazz fans know the art form has a deep history in the Bay Area, particularly beginning in the 1940s, when the Fillmore became known as the “Harlem of the West.” Perhaps less well known: One of ...