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 ...

Leave it to director Steven Soderbergh and composer Thomas Newman to go retro ’60s with the music for their fourth collaboration, “Let Them All Talk.” Accompanying Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Commodores perform at the Ohio Valley Kool Festival in 1985. The Cincinnati Music Festival, 60 years old this year, has ...

There seems to be a fresh discovery of an obscure gem every month. Not that I am complaining, especially with this release from the Fontana vaults. Presenting Jazz Quintet 60 is the last of the very ...

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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, ...

Fender’s Jazz Bass is one of the iconic, go-to basses for players, with a sound that can be found on countless recordings across jazz, funk, soul, blues, classic rock and heavy metal since it was ...

There’s a reason Miles Davis recorded “My Funny Valentine” and John Coltrane “My Favorite Things.” Jazz musicians work via a strategy of theme-and-variation. They plant a melodic/rhythmic motif in the ...