Some Nation writers went out of their way to avoid discussing race in their critiques of the new music, even as loaded ...
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 ...
The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding ...
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.
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 ...
With a simple setup of a snare drum, bass drum, two toms and two or three cymbals, Arthur “Zutty” Singleton was considered an innovator in jazz drumming.