Our Back Pages / When the magazine began covering jazz in the 1920s, it often struggled to catch the beat. Richard Kreitner ...

Postmodern Jukebox teamed up with singer Veronica Swift to perform a bouncy 1920s hot jazz cover of the 1987 Aerosmith song “Rag Doll”. As she sang, Swift’s fabulous swingy dress kept time ...

Another reminder — with live musical demonstrations on stage — is coming to Kiggins Theatre. As part of its ongoing History on Tap collaboration with the Clark County Historical Museum, Kiggins will ...

To learn more about jazz and its impact, watch The Devil's Music: 1920s Jazz, the final film in the 4-part Culture Shock series. Early 20th century jazz clubs were deplored by some who considered ...

Black Americans developed jazz at the turn of the century. The improvised music combined elements of ragtime, blues, spirituals, and band music. By the 1920s, jazz had migrated across the border ...

Percussion prodigy and washboard wizard Jimmy Bertrand worked with Louis Armstrong and Ma Rainey and mentored future star ...

A port city on the Gulf of Mexico, people would come from all over the world to New Orleans to trade, socialise and share their music. Out of this musical melting pot came jazz. Since the ‘Jazz Age’ ...

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

Jazz music has been rooted in the tapestry of Dallas since its Deep Ellum debut in the 1920s. The artistic neighborhood is ...

To learn more about jazz and its impact, watch The Devil's Music: 1920s Jazz, the final film in the 4-part Culture Shock series.