My father really enjoys wine. We can go to a restaurant and he will talk to the waiter about wine for what seems like an eternity. The conversation normally revolves around the year a certain wine was ...

1959 was arguably the most creative year in all of jazz history. Bird had already passed away, and this year would see the passings of Lester Young and Billie Holiday. Musically speaking, when we read ...

Five essential jazz artists from 1959, the year jazz broke. By Julian Sancton Jazz officially turns 100 this year — an ­anniversary that comes with an asterisk. The genre emerged in New Orleans at the ...

On Aug. 25, 1959, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis "walked this pretty white girl named Judy out to get a cab" between his sets at Birdland, the renowned New York City jazz club. Then, as Miles wrote in his ...

It was the year a jungle rebel named Fidel Castro took over Cuba, Barbie made her debut on toy-store shelves, and Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state. But was it also the apex of quality and creativity ...

From time to time on The Checkout, I listen to records with Ben Ratliff, music critic for The New York Times. When he broke the news that a collection of historic recordings from the Newport Jazz ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. At 2:30 on March 2, 1959, the 32-year-old trumpet player and bandleader ...

In 1959, Jazz got a kick start from innovators like Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Dave Brubeck, who helped change the musical landscape forever. Highlights from classic records; family members/jazz ...

Six years before he defined a new British style of jazz, the pianist and composer was already out on his own Everyone knows by now that a distinctively British style of jazz emerged in the 1960s, and ...

1959 was a Golden Year for jazz. It was a year in which some of the greatest innovators in jazz were recorded on five of the most influential albums in jazz history, and it was also a year in which ...

Jazz became a multiracial music back in 1935, when Benny Goodman invited the black pianist Teddy Wilson to become the third member of his trio. Within a year, the addition of the vibraphone player ...