The great tenor saxophonist Benny Golson was a jazz trailblazer and an emblem of cool. No one played, composed or talked like ...
Film damaged clip of a vinyl single record playing on a turntable. Also available without film damage and dirt effect. jazz 1950 stock videos & royalty-free footage 00:30 45RPM vinyl single record ...
Avalon; Later; Ain't Misbehavin'; Mean To Me; Stairway To The Stars; Count Every Star; NIce Work If You Can Get It; There'll Never Be Another You; Blazin'; To Think You've Chosen Me; After You've Gone ...
Golson was one of the few surviving jazz masters of the 1950s, a golden age during which the innovations of the 1940s, known ...
Legendary tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin released his first solo album on the Blue Note label in January 1957. Containing both the fast-paced work for which Griffin became known and some more ...
Rocco Scott LaFaro (1936-1961) was a musician of the first order, who found his 'voice' in jazz in the mid-1950s. His played the double bass violin, better known today as the acoustic bass to ...
And they all happen to be white. "White Jazz" is the title of a James McElroy novel set in LA in the 1950s. This is the time and place that keeps summoning McElroy. (It also is the setting of his ...
In the late 1950s, musicians Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach and Nina Simone were invited to become "jazz ambassadors" by the US State Department. Photo shows A classical musician ...
Here Val Wilmer fills in the details of his formative experiences in the UK’s 1950s jazz clubs and dance halls When the Nigerian saxophonist Chris Ajilo died on 20 February aged 91 it received scant ...
Music brings us life; music shows us death. In his joshing, garrulous way, Benny Golson said as much in Washington 11 years ago: “What have we done tonight?” the jazzman asked a rapt crowd at ...