While dance music was always much more popular in Great Britain in the 1920s and ’30s than jazz, even the top society bands ...

Gene Bertoncini, a jazz guitarist known for bringing the nylon-string acoustic guitar into swing, standards, and Brazilian ...

By the time the 23-year-old Louis Armstrong arrived in New York in 1924, that city had become a vital proving ground for jazz ...

Here is the globe’s foremost gathering of classic jazz musicians and fans in a three-day concert series featuring live music ...

Few great musicians, either popular or “classical,” have been so historically “hard done by” as Gertrude “Ma” Rainey. Until ...

Please Say You Will (1895) is Scott Joplin’s first published composition. Though the “I’m sorry, please take me back” lyrics (written by Joplin) are bland and one-dimensional, the music points forward ...

Hal Smith: Hello to our readers! Thank you for your interest in the music of great American composer Fred Rose. Jeff Barnhart and I have one more article to share with you where we will talk about ...

If the contributions Gary Giddins has made in the last 50 years to the dissemination of Jazz and Jazz history were all listed here, they would take up this entire piece. Here’s a brief sample: Giddins ...

The Secret Six, named after abolitionist John Brown’s Secret Society of Six of the 1850s, has been playing hot jazz in New Orleans since 2020. For their Toot Sweet and Goose the Beat release, the ...

The 52nd Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival, held May 27-30, had not even begun before I met two of the musicians getting off the same train I was on coming to Sedalia—Steve Hicks and Tadao Tomokiyo. Tadao ...

One thing jazz lovers today can appreciate is that here are a good number of jazz bands featuring young musicians—in music schools, high schools, colleges, and elsewhere – keeping jazz alive in both ...

Shrink the land mass of the continental United States to the size of California. Link every major city by high speed bullet train. Would you be able to assemble enough jug bands to pull off something ...