Jazz Articles about Sonny Greer

Ghosts In The Machine, Part 4: Jazz Musicians And Popular Music

by Kurt Ellenberger
February 24, 2021

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Part 4: Jazz in the Trenches In my previous articles, I detailed the enormous influence that jazz musicians have had on popular music since the 1960s. This may, early on, have been a matter of survival; as the popularity of jazz waned, so did the income potential, as detailed in Marc Meyers' noteworthy recent addition to the social history of jazz, Why Jazz Happened. ...