The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is letting the ladies take the lead this weekend with two concerts featuring some of the city's finest female musicians and singers. The Jazz Depot, 111 E. First St., ...

To date, the Latin dance album that holds the record for sales remains Tito Puente's Dance Mania. Recorded in November and December of 1957 and released in early 1958, Dance Mania was the first ...

You won't find one of my favorite Thad Jones albums listed under his name. It's Dance Along With Basie, recorded for Roulette at the tail end of the 1950s. Cut over four sessions during the December ...

Fast forward a few decades, now the 21st century, I was asked to pair jazz with chamber music on the Eastern Shore. I turned to my friends.  A close friend, a jazz pianist himself, introduced me to ...

Bob Weinstock, who released some of the seminal jazz recordings of the 1950s on his independent Prestige label, died Saturday of complications from diabetes at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 77.

We have proof that humans have been dancing as far back as prehistoric times. They danced for their god or gods, to celebrate major events, and just for fun or exercise. Proof of early dancing has ...

Dance halls, honky-tonks, speakeasies, jazz clubs, ballrooms, rock 'n' roll clubs, discotheques, raves, nightclubs and EDM festivals have different names, but they all have continued to attract music ...

Teresa Brewer, a singer who found fame as a novelty vocalist in 1950 with the chart-topping “Music! Music! Music!” but reinvented herself as a jazz stylist who performed with some of the genre’s ...

At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the ...

The Christmas movie season will see “Wonder Woman 1984,” “Promising Young Woman,” and “One Night in Miami” heading to theaters while “Soul” lands on Disney+ and “The Midnight Sky” launches on Netflix.