Blues and jazz gave birth to swing music, and Colorado played a role in that development. The music was nurtured in the state by Glenn Miller, who began his musical exploration in Fort Morgan, as well ...

In 1960 William Claxton took the road trip of his dreams. A West Coast photographer already well known for his photos of jazz musicians, Claxton was asked by German writer Joachim Berendt to document ...

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 ...

Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis on his landmark 1970 fusion album and collaborated ...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing — all you’ve got to do is stagger your timing. For decades, fans of jazz music have debated why some songs have swing — the characteristic swaying ...

In the 1960s, rock artists boasted most of the No. 1 albums on the Billboard Top 200. These are three non-rockers who got it, too.

Endowed with spectacular range, he played with Miles Davis, led New Directions and Special Edition, and spent decades with ...

Frank Sinatra had his biggest hit single of the 1960s with “Somethin’ Stupid,” a light pop duet with his daughter Nancy Sinatra that topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in 1967. But he also ...