Dear Jerry: My recollection is that there were many more instrumental hits in the 1960s before the British Invasion than after, when singing groups became hot. How did the success of those bands ...

The title may not ring a bell and the group might not seem familiar but almost everyone has heard the 1959 instrumental, “Sleep Walk,” which has been used in countless TV shows, commercials and movies ...

Redd Holt, a drummer who in the 1960s, before jazz fusion became a popular term, struck a beat that had both the kick of funk and the delicacy of jazz on a number of surprisingly popular instrumental ...