Easy listening is a modern label, to describe classic song-standards, exotica and lounge music, which perhaps doesn't do justice to the musical sophistication of its biggest stars – giants of ...

What we now know as easy listening evolved from the rhythmic syncopation of jazz, combined with the helpful invention of the electric microphone and demographic changes in the United States which led ...

The other great soloist in early jazz was soprano saxophonist and clarinettist Sidney Bechet. He was a different sort of virtuoso from Louis, and as well as spontaneous creation he composed ...