You’d pretty much have to be dead not to like “Doo Wop Shoo Bop,” the Black Ensemble’s harmonic, frenetic, unrelenting salute to the music of the 1950s. How can you resist a show that’s pretty much a ...

This essay challenges the received wisdom that teenpix of the 1950s were dominated by a soundtrack of rock 'n' roll. I argue that this cycle of film production was marked by a diversity of musical ...

Donald Byrd, an exceptional jazz trumpeter associated with the “hard bop” school of jazz exemplified by the Blue Note record label during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, died February 4. The ...

Hard bop emerged in the early 1950s when a new generation of New York jazz musicians began combining original compositions with funky rhythms, a stronger, sophisticated beat and tightly arranged horns ...