Few Americans know much about it, but a radical midcentury revolution in jazz was born in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. Some of the most exciting and challenging (and forgotten) American music ...

Mr. Dankworth, who had been performing since the 1940s, was perhaps the most renowned British jazz musician of his era. He led bebop groups and big bands and often performed with traveling ...

Throughout the 1950s (and beyond), modernist British jazz musicians were in thrall to the American bebop stars they had been trying to emulate since the late 1940s. It was the pinnacle to which they ...