British bandleader Alex Mendham, who is launching an Art Deco Dance Series in San Francisco this month, has long been ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

Listed below are full-length feature films that meet one or more of these criteria: The story is about jazz or jazz musicians; The film features performances by famous (or fictional) jazz musicians; ...

The Jazz Age Lawn Party's organizer says the event has grown organically over its ten years, as more and more people dress to the nines. Photo by Laura June Kirsch for the Village Voice Photo by Laura ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by From the set design to the wig styles, the Broadway musical creates a richly detailed vision of the 1920s and ’30s. Its creators share their ...

It’s the 1920s all over again. The Jazz Age Lawn Party will return to New York City’s Governors Island from June 11-12. Attendees dress in early 20th century period costumes and swing dance to music ...

Bix Beiderbecke was one of the great jazz musicians of the 1920s. A brilliant cornet player with an amazing ear, he drank himself to death at the age of 28 with illegal Prohibition liquor. Although ...

It was never actually jazz music itself that became uncool or out of fashion, it was how we conceptualised jazz fandom, and the nature of the genre's defenders.

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...