Listed below are full-length feature films that meet one or more of these criteria: The story is about jazz or jazz musicians; The film features performances by famous (or fictional) jazz musicians; ...
The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Max Raabe of the Palast Orchester, which keeps pre-World War II German jazz alive for modern audiences. In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and ...
This story appears in Birmingham magazine's July 2016 Issue. Subscribe today! "Southern Artists To Make Records," the headline announced: "Making Of Phonograph Discs Is Birmingham's Latest Industrial ...
The spirit of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, from a famous photo taken in Chicago in 1923, lives on in the city's modern clubs, bars, and concert halls. Credit: Illustration by Frank Okay The Roaring ...
The first major museum exhibition to focus on American taste in design during the exhilarating years of the 1920s, “The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s” will debut this spring at Cooper Hewitt, ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Nearly a century after their first performances, American composer Leo Sowerby's ...
Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...