The 1960s, Jazzed Up

When the music world shifted in 1964, jazz and pop artists eventually made the scene

By the mid- and late 1960s, established big bands, vocalists and jazz artists finally caught up with the seismic changes taking place in popular music. The biggest shift, of course, was the arrival of a new Anglo-American songbook dominated by pop-rock and pop-soul writers such as Paul McCartney and John Lennon, Hal David and Burt Bacharach, England’s T…