The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

The chapter “Our Mainstream Jazz” describes how, by 1970, jazz gained a modernist, formalized sensibility after the influence ...

Otherwise another city would beat out KC for the chance to buy what experts called the greatest, largest collection of jazz films in the world. New Orleans and Paris – the one in France – were ...

With a simple setup of a snare drum, bass drum, two toms and two or three cymbals, Arthur “Zutty” Singleton was considered an ...