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

1930 marked a significant change in the sound of jazz-oriented bands in New York, on radio, recordings, and in live performance. That year, Red Nichols, who’d been the most trend-setting white ...

The Dude Ranch, Paul's Paradise, the Frat Hall, the Savoy, Lil' Sandy's, Jackie's - these are some of the colorful names of Portland's jazz joints of decades past. The popular clubs featured dancing, ...

For Samara Joy, music runs in her blood. Her paternal grandparents founded The Savettes, a gospel group originating in Philadelphia. Her father was a famous bassist who toured with famed gospel artist ...

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actors Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris offer narratives drawn from the memoirs of Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith and Langston Hughes. The Jim Cullum Jr. Jazz Band and the Hot Club ...

Paul Samuel “Pops” Whiteman was a 1920s and 1930s bandleader, composer, orchestra director, and producer who was so notorious he earned the nickname “King of Jazz” from the press of his time. So, ...

The only U.S. city designated as a UNESCO City of Music, Kansas City, Missouri, has a musical history rooted in the American ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article Marquee of Apollo Theatre in 1946. Photo by William P. Gottlieb from Library of Congress. Cab Calloway and his Orchestra performing at the Cotton Club in ...

Seattle has a rich jazz history -- and you can’t talk about it without mentioning legends like Ray Charles and Quincy Jones. Both artists knew each other, as they grew their music chops right here in ...