Jazz was really the music that facilitated integration among the races in this country and never got credit for it. —Sonny Rollins Sittin' In Jeff Gold 256 Pages ISBN: # 978-0-06- 291470-5 Harper ...

For Jack Komorowski, 64, oldies means the music of the 1940s and 1950s. Komorowski, an Absecon resident, grew up listening to the 1940s music his parents played.

Gold interviewed music producer and multi-instrumentalist Quincy Jones, 87, who toured during the 1950s with bandleader Lionel Hampton, for his book, “Sittin’ In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and ...

The songs of the late 1940s and early 1950s, when the big bands had their last great flowering before giving way to rock ‘n’ roll, are what he sings with Roy Battle and the Altones, as ...

The history of Arizona music is the story of a myriad of different scenes and sounds. Here are essential records from 1920s to the 1950s.