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 ...

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

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

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 ...

For the late Mario Bauzá, one of the founders of Black Cuban jazz, the term “Latin jazz” erased a key aspect of his music ... the integrity of origins, and the preservation of people?

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 ...

“Birmingham has this jazz history that is really distinctive ... True Story Brewing jazz jam (following about an hour of music, the crew will screen the documentary around 8 p.m.) Bellisario ...