Grady Tate, a jazz musician who was nominated for Grammy Awards as a singer but was best known as a versatile drummer who helped propel the “soul-jazz” style of the 1960s and who appeared on hundreds ...
Dial Records initiated the “tenor battle" concept in 1947 when the label brought bebop saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray into the studio to record Gordon's composition The Chase. Prestige ...
A new Downtown Disney exhibit tracing the history of jazz in America highlights the Dixieland at Disneyland era in the 1960s that saw Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and other bandleaders turn the ...
These forgotten songs from 1968 may not be super popular today, but they'll start spinning in your brain after hearing them ...
Chicago jazz pianist John Wright earned his reputation with a string of LPs for the Prestige label in the early 60s—his 1960 debut made such an impression that its title, South Side Soul, remains his ...
In a “History Matters” column almost four years ago, I wrote about the Laurel Pop Festival that took place in 1969 at what was then called Laurel Race Course. Many found it hard to believe Laurel ...
A thematic sequel to his 2007 release, Song and Dance, Bobby Broom's Soul Fingers is a deep-pile take on late 1960s—early 1970s pop, with Broom in his best Wes Montgomery vein, giving new soul-jazz ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. When soul jazz was born in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it provided a pathway for ...
Since 2018, the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective has made waves in town by resurrecting the stylish grooves of the postbop era, which began in the late 1950s—nationally, the sound was shaped by the likes ...
Grady Tate, a jazz musician who was nominated for Grammy Awards as a singer but was best known as a versatile drummer who helped propel the “soul-jazz” style of the 1960s and who appeared on hundreds ...