This essay challenges the received wisdom that teenpix of the 1950s were dominated by a soundtrack of rock 'n' roll. I argue that this cycle of film production was marked by a diversity of musical ...

Tony Scott, a jazz musician who helped expand the musical limits of the clarinet and who was an early proponent of what is now called world music, died Wednesday at his home in Rome, where he had ...

Long before Bill Clinton, Magic Johnson’s movie theaters and Starbucks came on the scene, Harlem was home to bebop music. And there was no better place to hear the greats than a little neighborhood ...