Cleveland’s story as an early torchbearer of rhythm and blues begins in the late 1940s when this new genre of pulsating, dance-oriented music was broadcast on local stations like WJMO and WABQ.

In 1954, it brought in pioneering disc jockey Alan Freed to play this newfangled music that soon would be called rock and roll. By the early 1960s, it was one of New York's four R&R stations ...

Auld also played some rock'n roll working for Alan Freed in 1959. He can be heard playing sax on the 1968 Ella Fitzgerald album 30 by Ella. In 1977 he played a bandleader in the motion picture New ...

But ever since Alan Freed popularized the term “rock ’n’ roll” in the 1950s, movies have been obsessed with popular music and the messy people who make it. “Almost Famous,” 2000. Photo courtesy of ...

There are no lines and no shading in the pieces. “It was a disc jockey from Cleveland, Alan Freed, who coined the phrase ‘rock ’n’ roll’ in the ’50s to define R & B, but little did he ...

Written by group member Harvey Fuqua (and, ostensibly, manager and famed DJ Alan Freed) with Bobby Lester singing lead, “Sincerely” topped the R&B charts and hit No.20 on the Pop chart.

Karen Read’s case has sparked national interest, fueled by the strange circumstances surrounding the charges and a Max ...

Harvard University sued President Donald Trump's administration on Monday in an effort to halt the government's pause of more ...

Since then, the Trump administration has frozen $2.3 billion in funding to Harvard and threatened to strip the university of ...

The second murder trial of Karen Read, whose case has sparked a national debate on police accountability and won her legions ...