And right in the middle of it all, Harlem Renaissance music was changing the way the world listened. But most people only ...

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 ...

There's a reason historians keep circling back to jazz. Not because it's the most commercially dominant genre today - honestly, it isn't - but because few forces in American history moved through so ...

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 ...

STOCKBRIDGE — The Jazz Age, which took its name from a new type of music, is most associated with a new type of high-spirited, even hedonistic behavior: flappers dancing the Charleston, people in ...

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 ...

The book traces how swing, bebop, and big band music arrived in Bombay in the early 20th century, shaped the city's nightlife, and eventually found their way into the DNA of Bollywood film scores.

The Jazz Age Lawn Party's organizer says the event has grown organically over its ten years, as more and more people dress to the nines. Photo by Laura June Kirsch for the Village Voice Photo by Laura ...

Exhibition catalog published on the occassion of the exhibition, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, April 7 to August 20, 2017, and The Cleveland ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites. Credit..