“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 ...

Leo Parker may not be a name that instantly springs to mind in the world of late 1940s bebop. There was one point, in 1948, however, when serious people, like Barry Ulanov, regarded Parker as the best ...

During the two decades that followed the end of World War II in 1945, independent record labels flourished. Many of these micro labels succeeded by specializing in specific types of music that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Esoteric Collective plays straight-ahead jazz featuring music ranging from 1940s Bebop to the 1960s. Family-friendly venue Just 10 minutes up the coast from downtown Santa Cruz. Enjoy the music in a ...

As NPR's employees file their federal returns and take up shop in a new building, we look back at an interesting historical moment in the 1940s. A... This week — when many of us at NPR rushed to file ...