The period after World War I was a flowering of the arts when it came to illustration, music, and dance performance," said ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

Musical conductor Thomas Wilson describes the music of the Prohibition era as the “sound of resistance.” The 1920s speakeasy movement brought about the birth of jazz, Wilson said, creating the ...

The Jazz Age was a time of excess, creativity, and passion that lunged jazz music into the mainstream. It produced music icons like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, whose innovative sounds advanced ...

By DON STEWART For the Valley Advocate A century ago, when women could be arrested for smoking in public and the ...

Named in part for Johnny Dunn’s pioneering Jazz Hounds, the group channels each member’s heritage into vivid performances that honor the complex, cosmopolitan roots of Black popular music in the early ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. How did an Iowa boy named in part after Germany’s “Iron Chancellor” become one of jazz’s most influential ...

Jazz pianist, composer, and educator Sarah Jane Cion—known for her award-winning artistry and her acclaimed appearances on NPR’s Piano Jazz—announces the release of her debut memoir, The Now Era: ...

The Delaware Art Museum returns visitors to the 1920s during “Jazz Age Illustration,” the first major exhibition to survey the art of popular illustration in the United States between 1919 and 1942.

I have a friend. I will not say his name. But he is to me what Charles Swann was to Marcel, the main character in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. My friend, who is a man about town, will often, ...

Near the end of the big band era, something curious started happening: The great jazz orchestras remained overwhelmingly popular, and they still spent the vast majority of their time criss-crossing ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GOVERNORS ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) — Put on your ...