WHAT NYMITH SAYS Surprisingly, rock and roll lost its legs shortly after jumping on stage. All the big names appeared in 1955 and 56, r...

WHAT NYMITH SAYS I'm guessing the common guiding line for jazz in 1957 is that Miles Davis gets the gold, Thelonious Monk gets th...

WHAT NYMITH SAYS As I understand it, R'n'B evolved from the urban blues market in much the same way rockabilly evolved from ...

WHAT NYMITH SAYS The Clown was Mingus' first followup to Pithecanthropus Erectus and is usually referred to as his second masterpi...

WHAT NYMITH SAYS Pete Seeger put out dozens of records on the Folkways label in the 1950s and trying to follow them all is as ridiculo...