Lou Donaldson, an alto saxophonist with a supple, earthy style who was a key figure in the development of three styles of ...
A quirky arts project featuring music and memories from the 1950s and 60s has launched in Blackpool - with the help of some ...
Chart the history of American music from roughly the mid-1950s onwards and you'll find a singular thread running through its ...
The photographs were taken by Bristolian photographer Herbert Shergold in the 1950s and 60s, using glass plate negatives. Mr Shergold died in obscurity in 1982, with no relatives, and the ...
In the competitive jazz world of the 1950s, Mr. Jones composed numerous standards ... With a sizable income rolling in, Mr.
As a producer, he made the best-selling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” He was also a prolific arranger and ...
Quincy Jones bridged the gaps between jazz, pop, rock, gospel, rhythm & blues, hip-hop, and beyond. Here are some ways he ...
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Basie and trumpeter Clark Terry also would be mentors to the young Mr. Jones and he won a scholarship to what would become the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He gave it up, however, to go on the ...
Quincy Jones, who expanded the American songbook as a musician, composer and producer and shaped some of the biggest stars of the 20th century, has died at 91.