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Dion DiMucci was one of many significant names of the rock ‘n’ roll era to emerge from the Italian diaspora of the USA’s north-western states, his career encompassing doowop-influenc...
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Pianist Floyd Cramer was one of the most influential musicians in country music during the late 1950s and early ‘60s, and is especially associated with his use of what was called the “slip...
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Erroll Garner was one of the most distinctive jazz piano stylists of the post-war era, his approach transcending the emerging sub-genres of modern jazz, although his music was rooted in swing and he w...
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The 1950s saw the emergence of a new and more adventurous strand of political and social satire evidenced in books and newspapers, on stage and on radio, and especially on the burgeoning new medium of...
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Ira and Charlie Louvin (they were cousins of country singer/songwriter John D. Loudermilk) were a powerful and distinctive force in country music through the ‘50s until their break-up in 1963, their m...
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Amos Milburn was one of the pioneers of piano-based R&B to emerge from Texas in the post-war years to become one of the artists who helped frame the template for rock ‘n’ roll, along the way enjoying ...
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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were pivotal figures on the R&B scene of the early ‘50s and most especially during the rock ‘n’ roll era of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, as they developed and applied th...
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On paper, at least, Sonny Rollins and the Modern Jazz Quartet look like unlikely musical collaborators. The former, full of capricious creativity, was famed for his adventurous spirit, changing his ba...
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Spike Jones and his band The City Slickers produced a string of hits during the '40s and '50s with hilarious spoof versions of popular songs, which are as funny today as they were when first...
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