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 ...
Originally published in London in 1986 by Quartet Books LTD, Bob Gordon's seminal work on the jazz styles and groups that developed primarily in Los Angeles in the 1950s has long been out-of-print and ...
LENOX — The first chapter of John Gennari’s book “The Jazz Barn” opens with a pilgrimage through the woods — a trio of kitchen workers searching in the night for a musical oasis in the Lenox hills.