This tribute album by baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan features his bebop-based nonet pulling inspiration from a 1956 album by pop singer Frankie Laine (1913-2007) and trumpeter Buck Clayton. As ...

In the mid-1940s, Frankie Laine was an up-and-coming club singer with a jazz feel. His first recordings were in Los Angeles in 1944 and '45, but by the summer of 1946 he signed with the newly formed ...

Frankie Laine, a pop idol with an enormous voice and an even bigger catalog of hits, died yesterday at 93 in a San Diego hospital. Laine was also celebrated for the wide range of styles that he ...