The jazz collection that for two decades before Hurricane Katrina was housed in the Old U.S. Mint in New Orleans will be overhauled, updated, and in about two years, moved...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Max Roach got his first musical break at age 16, filling in when Duke Ellington's drummer fell ill in 1940. Those three nights spawned a career that...
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Despite unexpected drama, bossa nova legend Joao Gilberto overcame all obstacles to cast his musical spell on a Carnegie Hall audience with a marathon two-hour concert at...
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John R.T. Davies, one of the world's top restorers of old jazz records, has died, his family said. He was 77.
Davies succumbed to cancer on May 25 at his home in Burnham,...
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A 1929 film clip of country music legend Jimmie Rogers. Scratchy recordings of Mississippi blues godfather Robert Johnson. Images of folk icon Bob Dylan 's early...
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An overflow crowd of 400 watched the man in dark glasses and a purple suit approach the grand piano wedged between the desks and podium of the Georgia House of...
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An exhibit of Frank Sinatra memorabilia, from letters to photographs to album covers, has opened to the public as part of an annual jazz series.
The exhibition is running...
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San Francisco has long been renowned
as a city that marches to a different drummer, whether it be
progressive politics or gay marital rights. So it comes as no
surprise that...
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For five decades, names like Ella Fitzgerald and Jimi Hendrix have blared out in neon letters above the doors of the Olympia concert hall.
The famed Paris concert hall...
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After 11 years of planning, backers of a National Music Center and Museum pledged Thursday to open the facility in the nation's capital five years from now.
"We will be...
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Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan are among the 20 artists and entertainers who most influenced life in the 20th century, according...
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