When you think of the Beat Generation, you think of Jack Kerouac—and behind his writing, you’ll almost always find jazz.

The language that Bach was using… had a lot to do with the bebop language. Jazz is something impossible to describe, but very easy to recognize… You must listen to both, and for some reason, you ...

Allen Ginsberg, a powerful voice of the Beat Generation, drew deep inspiration from jazz. His groundbreaking poem "Howl" has ...

"Mulberry-eyed girls in black stockings, Smelling vaguely of mint jelly and last night's bongo drummer... fling their arrow legs / To the heavens / Losing their doubts in the beat" of San Francisco ...

The Springfield Symphony Jazz Orchestra (SSJO) will open its 2024-2025 season honoring the music of two genre giants with a play on one of William Shakespeare’s famous phrases: “To Be or Not to Bop: ...

Bebop, the jazz style, might’ve existed for decades before Cowboy Bebop the show, but let’s be real: In the universe of Shinichirō Watanabe’s iconic 1998 anime, one does not exist without the other.

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Cowboy Bebop only ran for one season, but it had an outsized influence on what nerds think is cool. The jazz-inflected tale of a group of bounty hunters scraping together a living in a grim far-future ...

Recorded in two sessions in 1956 and released the following year on Savoy, Hank Mobley’s Jazz Message #2 stands as one of ...