Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth ... of the American slave trade--had already taken on special significance in the history of black music-making in America. The most ...
This February at the museum, we're celebrating a new season of the podcast, commemorating Black History Month, and listening ...
Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass band, and blues styles. The improvisational music that results has a syncopated rhythm ...
For those of us engaged in trying to understand it, the history of jazz turns out to be much more than a study of this extraordinary American music. Jazz has offered a precise prism through which ...
Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...