Charlie Parker was without doubt one of the most important and influential musicians in the entire history of jazz, as a pioneering and innovative alto saxophonist during the bebop era, as a composer ...

Born in Mississippi in 1915, Al Hibbler, who was blind from birth, was a baritone vocalist whose career transcended the divide between big band jazz, rhythm and blues and sophisticated pop. Starting w...

The Ravens were among the pioneers of the R&B doowop genre during the 1940s and ‘50s, starting to record in 1946 and having all their hits between 1948 and 1952 – along with the The Or...