By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across ... in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run nightclubs, the venues that serve alcohol and hire black musicians. These speakeasies allow ...

In addition to his hugely influential work with Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins, Ed Blackwell and Dewey Redman, throughout the ‘60s, and 70’s, Haden subsequently collaborated with a number ...

Missouri played no small role in developing jazz forms. St. Louis was a major stopping off point for musicians headed to New York and Chicago from New Orleans in the 1910s and 20s. Kansas City was ...

The concert promoter, who died this week, dreamed up the DC Jazz Festival on a napkin. In one sense, Charlie Fishman’s ...