The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the ... By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls.

Missouri played no small role in developing jazz forms. St. Louis was a major stopping off point for musicians headed to New York and Chicago from New Orleans in the 1910s and 20s. Kansas City was ...

Born in 1919, Art Blakey began his musical career, as did many jazz musicians, in the church. The foster son of a devout Seventh Day Adventist Family, Art learned the piano as he learned the Bible, ...

Rolly Crump had an outsized reputation. A rebel in the Disney fold. A beatnik. An unapologetic tell-it-like-it-is ...

Building on the 2023 festival edition with 60 children ... Petersburg Art Space and Theater X to neighbourhood kitchens, a saz school, neighbourhood shops, music schools and the Jazz Institut Berlin.

On this week's edition of Miami Life, Jim Berry introduces us to a South Florida woman who uses her musical passion to unite ...

The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame celebrates the late Huntington and Montauk saxophone great Pat DeRosa on ...

Rhythm. Color. Movement. Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds, rhythms, and colors of jazz inspired prominent visual artists of the 20th century. In depicting African American culture, Romare ...

Whether you find yourself grooving in the vibrant streets of New Orleans or sipping café au lait on the charming avenues of ...

Jazz fusion guitarist Al Di Meola has bemoaned what he sees as the current state of the music industry. In an interview with ...

The nonprofit Seattle Jazz Fellowship has carved out a performance space in the historic Globe Building — for now — and is ...

(As chosen by Sage Bava) This one is such an obvious choice, two out of five artists ... jazz album, it's the perfect album. Chet Baker has been synonymous with romance and love for more than 60 ...