Free Jazz - It's Concept

Jazz Since 1960

Charles Mingus - Free Jazz

As emerging new styles joined without replacing established trends in jazz, the jazz experience increased in complexity and sophistication, although hardly in popularity. From the time bebop entered the fray - well before rock and roll swept the popular music industry off its feet - jazz has belonged as much to the classical as to the popular music world. Jazz pianist, composer, and scholar Billy Taylor refers to jazz, in fact, as American's classical music. 

Movies and Music

Music for films

Music, Moves and The Memories

Music closely associated with and highly important to theatrical performances since well before the ancient Greeks staged their magnificent choral dramas, has been inextricably intertwined with film since the motion picture industry began, about 1895. In fact, as the famous American composer Aaron Copland pointed out, a film score is simply a new form of dramatic music.

Musical Theater - Vaudeville, Revues, Burlesque

Musical Theater

History of Musical Theater Performance - Vaudeville, Revues, Burlesque

A Musical Theater Performance

 A variety of songs by European and American composers, including selections from popular English ballad operas and tuneful melodies from the Italian opera repertory, occasional art songs, sentimental ballads, and patriotic tunes, enriched early nineteenth-century theatrical performances in America.

History of Rock 'n' Roll - It's emergence

How did Rock and Roll Ignited ?

Rock n Roll Legends

The baby boom of World War II produced a fifties teen boom of unprecedented numbers, wealth, and influence. Little interested in the sentimental popular music of the depression and war years, these numerous young people craved excitement and music expressive of their frustrations and needs, a music to which they could dance.

Latin Music - A popular genre in the history

Latin Popular Music’s

Latin Music - An Illustrative Art

Music from Latin America, having enriched the popular and concert music of the United States for at least a century and a half, is of more significance to North American popular music today than ever before. In the Southwest, where venerable Spanish traditions remain strong, traditional dance music is played much as it has been for many generations.

History of Jazz - II

History of Jazz and its emergence Part II –Emergence Of Swing

A Jazz Swing Band

Jazz 1930-1960

Jazz reached a peak of popularity in the mid-1930s, a relatively optimistic period when the Great depression was finally receding and America’s involvement in World War II lay ahead. Recordings and radio programs having made t ends of sweet jazz widely familiar been, multitudes o people craved more adventurous