“Clyde,” says Bandleader Turk Murphy, “is the Lawrence Welk of Dixieland jazz. His music breathes happiness and chloroform.” He was talking about Bandleader Clyde McCoy, who for years has been ...

Broncho Legacy and the Odessa High School Jazz Band will join forces for a trip down memory lane for the K-OHS Radio Hour. The show will feature tunes from the 1940s, professional swing dancers and ...

The Jazz Age was a time of excess, creativity, and passion that lunged jazz music into the mainstream. It produced music icons like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, whose innovative sounds advanced ...

Renowned jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington dated a trombone player named Gus Chappell, and that explains some of her song “Big Long Sliding Thing.” She said her tune “Long John Blues” was about ...