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 ...

Its early coverage of jazz reflected both tendencies, signaling an openness to the emerging form even as it offered a rather patronizing take on the music’s significance. “There are times ...

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding ...

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 ...

The chapter “Our Mainstream Jazz” describes how, by 1970, jazz gained a modernist, formalized sensibility after the influence ...

The other great soloist in early jazz was soprano saxophonist and clarinettist Sidney Bechet. He was a different sort of virtuoso from Louis, and as well as spontaneous creation he composed ...

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.

Another reminder — with live musical demonstrations on stage — is coming to Kiggins Theatre. As part of its ongoing History on Tap collaboration with the Clark County Historical Museum, Kiggins will ...

Ayano Hisa Back in the days of my misspent youth, New York City’s biggest season for jazz was the early summer, which featured the Newport Jazz Festival, a Knitting Factory-centric festival, and ...