An oft-repeated tale in the annals of modern jazz has it that bebop was born at Minton’s Playhouse in New York City in 1940, where the house...

Songs with nonsense syllables serve to remind us that American music since the jazz era always has been more a matter of sound than sense—sc...

That grand wild sound of bop floated from beer parlors; it mixed medleys with every kind of cowboy and boogie-woogie in the American night. ...