Jazz Masters of the 50s
by Joe Goldberg
Category: African American musicians

Here are the great jazz men of the 1950s, all of whom have come to prominence since the rise of the late Charlie Parker, all of whom are the leaders of the jazz world. Beginning with Gerry Mulligan and the "cool" jazz of the early fifties, the author discusses the most significant figures of the decade: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, the Brubeck quartet, the controversial Charlie Mingus, Ornette Coleman and his plastic saxophone, the great Ray Charles.