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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Manhattan Transfer is the most successful vocal jazz group in music history. The 29 albums released by the quartet have sold in the millions. They’ve won 11 Grammys and countless other awards, ...

Jazz returned to Barcelona in a big way this past September, with the annual four-day music event called Jazzing Festival — or simply, Jazzing. It was the eighth such Jazzing, created by and featuring ...

International Sweethearts of Rhythm on a film soundstage c. 1945. The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was a racially mixed sixteen-piece all-women Swing orchestra. The word ‘International’ denoted ...

Jazz has been used in many Hollywood films through the years, whether on the soundtrack, for cameo appearances by jazz greats, or as part of a film’s plot. However it is fair to say that every one of ...

Bandleader Ada Leonard was a dancer, singer and show business professional who led the first all-female Swing orchestra touring Army training camps during WWII filling the sustained demand for Swing ...

Singer-lyricist-bandleader-entertainer, Noble Sissle occupies an unusual place in the world of ragtime, jazz and show business. He was one of the best-known musicians of the early to mid 20th century, ...