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The ironic thing about bebop is that when this style of jazz was introduced and presented to the general public in the mid-1940s, it was widely regarded by the music industry as the most esoteric ...

Dizzy Gillespie was a musical revolutionary and a charismatic entertainer, high-spirited and highly disciplined, a master trumpeter and a survivor from a jazz generation that lost many of its young.

He's been at the forefront of contemporary jazz for over 40 years. He played with a number of bop groups in New York during the 1940s with quintets led by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Later, a ...

“When he walks into a room,” trumpeter and bandleader Wynton Marsalis once said of Jimmy Heath, “jazz history is made.” Not only was Mr. Heath one of the most accomplished saxophonists and composers ...

Graduate students today fall squarely in the millennial generation, which means we’re steeped in hipster culture. Readers of a certain age may still associate hipsters with aficionados of 1940s bebop.

First there was Rodgers & Hart. Then there was Rodgers & Hammerstein. And that change, depicted in the new film 'Blue Moon,' signaled a shift in pop culture ...