Jazz's popularity grows, and as it attracts a wider audience, so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz ...
In turn, Richmond's tiny Gennett Recording Studio played host to some of the biggest names in early jazz history and produced some of the earliest known jazz recordings, known at the time as "race ...
and you’ll hear jazz history being made — though their music is usually remembered as blues or early R&B. As jazz ensembles grew, the six strings of the guitar sometimes had a hard time ...
His early bands included unusual instruments ... and is the author of 10 books, including The History of Jazz, Delta Blues and How to Listen to Jazz. His next book, Music: A Subversive History ...
“Birmingham has this jazz history that is really distinctive ... and grand ballroom in the Colored Masonic Temple. From the early 1900s to the 1950s, bandleader John T.