Broncho Legacy and the Odessa High School Jazz Band will join forces for a trip down memory lane for the K-OHS Radio Hour. The show will feature tunes from the 1940s, professional swing dancers and ...

Renowned jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington dated a trombone player named Gus Chappell, and that explains some of her song “Big Long Sliding Thing.” She said her tune “Long John Blues” was about ...

“Clyde,” says Bandleader Turk Murphy, “is the Lawrence Welk of Dixieland jazz. His music breathes happiness and chloroform.” He was talking about Bandleader Clyde McCoy, who for years has been ...

Jump blues was a style of music that developed in the 1940s and was an offshoot of the big bands of the day. It was essentially an uptempo swing combining jazz, boogie and blues that was popular in ...

KMHD Jazz Radio is celebrating its 40th year on the air this month. KMHD is the top-rated jazz station in the nation at a time when full-time jazz radio stations are rare. It has been a staple of the ...

Jazz is a language that is understood by everyone and that infuses all music genres. Perhaps that's why Pensacola's annual JazzFest is so enduring. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Jazz ...

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ...

Remy Le Boeuf had a long drive ahead of him when he moved from Brooklyn, New York, to Denver a year and a half ago. He and his partner loaded up a 16-foot Penske truck, which didn’t have a way to plug ...