Jazz was really the music that facilitated integration among the races in this country and never got credit for it. —Sonny Rollins Sittin' In Jeff Gold 256 Pages ISBN: # 978-0-06- 291470-5 Harper ...

LEWISBURG — The Union County Historical Society received the photography files of Don Ross, a professional photographer, whose shop was on Market Street, Lewisburg. Among his holdings are ...

Gold interviewed music producer and multi-instrumentalist Quincy Jones, 87, who toured during the 1950s with bandleader Lionel Hampton, for his book, “Sittin’ In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and ...

There's no conspiracy to recreate 1940s and 1950s childhoods. Rather, one era produced more enduring pop Christmas tunes than any other for social and technological reasons. White Christmas ...

Impact and Influence of Black Singers from the 1950s Of course, the influence of Black soul singers from the 50s extended beyond the boundaries of music.

The 1940s, which saw the world go to war for a second time and the fall of the German Nazis, was also an exhilarating time for music.

Pete Rugolo, who helped shape the sound of jazz in the 1940s and 1950s as a composer, arranger and record producer and later wrote several theme songs for television dramas including “The ...

Scottish music hall artist Will Fyffe outside the Clifton Hotel, Blackpool in the 1940s. He was famous for composing " I Belong to Glasgow" which he recorded in 1920 ...

Georgia Gibbs, 87, Bubbly Singer in 1940s and 1950s This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such ...

These songs were initially released in the 1940s and stood the test of time to become country classics decades later.

One in particular is my memory of my parents taking me downtown to see all the Christmas lights, decorations and exhibits each year during the 1940s and 1950s.

It was known as West Coast jazz. The story of jazz clubs in LA and across the country is the topic of a new book from music historian Jeff Gold. It’s called “ Sittin’ In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and ...