David Clayton-Thomas, the singer and songwriter best known for being the frontman of the jazz-rock outfit Blood, Sweat & Tears, died on Wednesday evening. He was 84 years old. According to Variety, ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

The Byrds weren’t attempting to sound jazzy. Instead, they wanted to incorporate some of Coltrane’s approaches into their music. Like any other genre of music, rock is constantly developing. In the ...

These lines are from The Rolling Stones' 1967 song, "Something Happened To Me Yesterday." Although not one of The Stones' most memorable hits, it does hint at some important considerations. First, and ...

Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground was quite a fan of jazz. In fact, he enjoyed the unique perspective of jazz and its freedom. Free-form jazz, specifically, could have easily inspired unique (and ...

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

Jazz and Western classical music are now more like pop and rock — at least by one measure. The melodic and harmonic structures of jazz and classical have become simpler over time, according to a ...