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 ...

In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton, a major New Orleans jazz pioneer, sat down for a series ... as a springboard for wider inquiry into the social history of American music traditions.

Henryk Wars, meanwhile, established a Tea-Jazz Orchestra in Lviv during the early years of the war ... And still the influence of Interwar jazz on the history of Polish music remains to this day, with ...

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 ...

“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.

Tickets are on sale for the for the Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival, scheduled for April 3 to 6 in Durango. Ragtime and classic jazz musicians from around the United States will descend on ...