Nat King Cole, a former jazz pianist who had had # 1 and # 2 hits on the pop charts in the early 1950s (" Mona Lisa " at # 2 in 1950 and " Too Young " at # 1 in 1951 ), had a record in the top 5 in the R & B charts in 1958, " Looking Back "/" Do I Like It ".

* Dee Dee Bridgewater ( born 1950 ), American jazz singer

This band was created in 1950 from smaller groups within the Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D. C. and continues to play jazz music for the Air Force community and the general public.

* Mohawk, a jazz tune composed by Charlie Parker appearing on the 1950 album Bird & Diz

* Bobbi Humphrey, a jazz flautist and singer was born in Marlin in 1950.

Paul had hosted a fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC radio in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humor between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ", " Little Rock Getaway ", " Brazil " and " Tiger Rag ".

Clarinetist George Lewis ( clarinetist ) | George Lewis in 1950 was prominent in the revived popularity of Dixieland | traditional jazz.

While the sisters specialized in swing, boogie-woogie, and novelty hits with their trademark lightning-quick vocal syncopations, they also produced major hits in jazz, ballads, folk, country-western, seasonal, and religious titles, being the first Decca artists to record an album of gospel standards in 1950.

It is rarely written for today but was common in jazz ensemble music written between 1930 and 1950.

Yusef Lateef ( born William Emanuel Huddleston ; October 9, 1920 ) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.

His first recordings were with the Charlie Singleton Orchestra in 1950 and then with bop emissaries Milt Jackson and Thelonious Monk in 1952, and he participated in several small groups with other jazz luminaries such as trumpeter Blue Mitchell, pianist Horace Silver, and drummer Art Blakey.

Inspired by a thousand-word rambling letter from his friend Neal Cassady, Kerouac in 1950 outlined the " Essentials of Spontaneous Prose " and decided to tell the story of his years on the road with Cassady as if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz.

The narrative takes place in the years 1947 to 1950, is full of Americana, and marks a specific era in jazz history, “ somewhere between its Charlie Parker Ornithology period and another period that began with Miles Davis .” The novel is largely autobiographical, Sal being the alter ego of the author and Dean standing for Neal Cassady.

By 1950 indigenous forms of British popular music were already giving way to the influence of American forms of music including jazz, swing and traditional pop, mediated through film and records.

In 1947, he moved to San Francisco and began contributing to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1950, initiating the first regular coverage of jazz and pop music in the mainstream US media.

Bell in 2011Robert Earl " Kool " Bell ( born October 8, 1950 ) is an American singer, songwriter, and bassist, who is the founding member of the jazz / R & B / soul / funk / disco band, Kool & the Gang.

Les Paul had hosted a 15-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford, and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humour between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented dazzling re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ," " Little Rock Getaway ," " Brazil ," and " Tiger Rag.

A 1944 Band graduate of New York Military Academy, in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, he wrote jazz compositions like " Not Really the Blues " for Woody Herman in 1949, " Hershey Bar " ( 1950 ) and " Pot Luck " ( 1953 ) for Stan Getz, " Straight Life " ( 1953 ) and " Low Life " ( 1956 ) for Count Basie as well as " Tommyhawk " ( 1954 ) for Chet Baker.

In 1948 / 9 he led a " novelty " band briefly but took a jazz band into The Cafe Society in 1950.

The Second Line – the magazine of the New Orleans jazz club, started in 1950 – took its name from the second lining tradition, which by that time included fans of jazz music, both black and white.

In 1950 Tex Williams heard Bryant's dizzying jazz / country style and used him on his recording of " Wild Card ".

Bobby Militello at Blue Note Jazz ClubRobert Philip Militello, better known as Bobby Militello, Bob Militello, or Bobby M, ( born 25 March 1950 in Buffalo, New York ) is a U. S. jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist.

* Hal Crook ( born 1950 ), jazz trombonist

* July 22, 1950: New York City, New York A 16-year-old boy was shot in the wrist and abdomen at the Public School 141 dance … during an argument with a former classmate.

In later life, Rogers remained on good terms with Astaire: she presented him with a special Academy Award in 1950, and they were co-presenters of individual Academy Awards in 1967, during which they elicited a standing ovation when they came on stage in an impromptu dance.

" Pablo Picasso experimented with classicizing motifs in the years immediately following World War I, and the Art Deco style that came to the fore following the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, often drew on neoclassical motifs without expressing them overtly: severe, blocky commodes by E. J. Ruhlmann or Sue et Mare ; crisp, extremely low-relief friezes of damsels and gazelles in every medium ; fashionable dresses that were draped or cut on the bias to recreate Grecian lines ; the art dance of Isadora Duncan ; the Streamline Moderne styling of US post offices and county court buildings built as late as 1950 ; and the Roosevelt dime.

Folk festivals began to be organised by the EFDSS from about 1950, usually as local or regional event with an emphasis on dance, like the Sidmouth Festival ( from 1955 ) and the Keele Festival ( 1965 ), which was abandoned in 1981 but reinstituted three years later as the National Folk Festival.

Graeme Lloyd Murphy AO ( born 2 November 1950 ) is an Australian dance choreographer.

Yolanda Montes Farrington in dance costume, 1950

The MSU started the first dance programme in India in 1950.

These include a complete half-hour show from August 17, 1954 featuring guest Don Cornell ; a complete one-hour show from late 1950 featuring guests The DeMarco Sisters plus Andy and Della Russell ; a segment from September 27, 1956 in which The Platters perform " You'll Never Know " and Andy Williams sings " Canadian Sunset ;" and a segment from August 5, 1957 in which celebrities Jack E. Leonard, Bert Lahr, Paul Winchell, and June Havoc compete in a dance contest.

After the Indian independence movement ( 1947 to 1950 ), dance became a university subject, dance schools appeared for the first time, and classical Indian dance became a concert dance form performed in theaters.

Eddie Torres ( born on July 3, 1950 ), also known as " The Mambo King ", is a salsa dance instructor.

Omara joined the dance group of the Cabaret Tropicana in 1950, following her elder sister, Haydee.

In 1950, Sol Hurok presented Katherine Dunham and Her Company in a dance revue at the Broadway Theater in New York, with a program composed of some of Dunham's best works.

Finally, in September 1950 the ICBD ( International Council of Ballroom Dancing ) was founded, becoming the world's first international professional dance organisation, and all other competitions claiming to be the ' World Championships ' were boycotted by member nations.

A few of his works have biblical themes, notably Judith ( 1950 ; a dance score for flute, clarinet, piano and string trio ) and Adonijah's Death ( 1986 ; for male chorus and symphonic wind band ).

He moved to New York City around 1950 and was playing piano in a Times Square tap dance studio when he was introduced to the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, who had temporarily left boxing and was putting together a song and dance revue.

Mortier is an organ manufacturer from Antwerp, Belgium that made orchestrions, fairground organs, and mostly dance organs from 1898 until 1950.

Jocelyn Lorette Brown ( born November 25, 1950, Kinston, North Carolina, sometimes credited as Jocelyn Shaw ) is an American R & B and dance music singer.

Miguel recruited friend and dancer José Limón who brought his dance company from New York City for the inaugural season in 1950, taught at Bellas Artes and helped arrange for international exposure of this new Mexican modern dance company.