During the two decades that followed the end of World War II in 1945, independent record labels flourished. Many of these micro labels succeeded by specializing in specific types of music that the ...

He's been at the forefront of contemporary jazz for over 40 years. He played with a number of bop groups in New York during the 1940s with quintets led by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Later, a ...

The ironic thing about bebop is that when this style of jazz was introduced and presented to the general public in the mid-1940s, it was widely regarded by the music industry as the most esoteric ...

Bebop's fast tempo and complex rhythms were embraced by modern-jazz fans when the jazz style emerged in the mid-1940s. But bop also provided jump blues with an opening. Bebop was spectacular and ...

Esoteric Collective plays straight-ahead jazz featuring music ranging from 1940s Bebop to the 1960s. Family-friendly venue Just 10 minutes up the coast from downtown Santa Cruz. Enjoy the music in a ...

As NPR's employees file their federal returns and take up shop in a new building, we look back at an interesting historical moment in the 1940s. A... This week — when many of us at NPR rushed to file ...