In the early 1970s, a young University of Virginia student, Russell Perry, had his musical world turned on its ear by a singular performance. In a roundabout way, that memorable event has led to a ...

One of its genre's most beloved recordings, Miles Davis' 1959 classic "Kind of Blue" is a cornerstone of so many LP and CD and download collections (it's in iTunes's jazz ...

Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements of the Swing Era began to emerge. It is the first book on early jazz history in over ...

Wisely, Kaplan instead uses his book to contextualize a handful of landmark jazz recordings, the better to enrich the reader’s experience when they next revisit the timeless “Kind of Blue ...

Even though it’s been more than a century since some of these novels roared onto the literary scene, they all remain classics of the era. Try this short quiz to see how many you remember.

Take “Winding Ball,” a popular song of the early 20th-century South, with a lineage, Wald claims, possibly stretching back to 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns.

And now, Red Cat is roaring back to life, this time, in a venue Sam had been eyeing for years—Bayou Place—in the heart of Downtown Houston.

Talk to Englewood Jazz Festival founder and director Ernest Khabeer Dawkins for any span of time, and he’ll sound off on one of the city’s great cultural scandals: the dearth of jazz venues on ...

It traces the lineage of jazz from historic movements to modern ones over the course of a century. The dancers and musicians move through styles such as house, voguing, the Lindy Hop, hip-hop ...