Grady Tate, a jazz musician who was nominated for Grammy Awards as a singer but was best known as a versatile drummer who helped propel the “soul-jazz” style of the 1960s and who appeared on hundreds ...

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A still from the 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer’s Day This is a shame. Because the 1960 film precedes—and, in many ways, paved the way for—those later documentaries. It has that same hungry eye for ...

Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis released Kind of Blue in August 1959, leading into the era of 60s improvisational jazz. The album featured Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans ...

Looking to watch Jazz on a Summer's Day? Bert Stern's 1960 Documentary film is available through several streaming and digital platforms. It's currently streaming on GuideDoc, Kino Film Collection, ...

When Jamal's trios visited Penthouse jazz club in Seattle in the '60s, they came to play. Now 92, the pianist has signed off on the release of a new series of live recordings from back in the day.

Black Americans were calling for freedom, and jazz expressed it better than mere words. Thomas’s opening line, to the mostly instrumental “Malcolm’s gone”, is simply the utterance “Malik El-Shabazz”, ...

Bassist Charles Mingus stood on the passenger seat of a convertible speeding through Newport, Rhode Island, shouting, “Come to my festival!” It might have looked like marketing, but make no mistake: ...

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...