Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements of the Swing Era began to emerge. It is the first book on early jazz history in over ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

Danny Coots and Adam Swanson became friends over a shared love of ragtime and early jazz music, that friendship coming decades after ragtime and early jazz were “new” styles of music. Coots was born ...

One hundred years ago this week, five New Orleans musicians made the first recording of a new genre of music unknown to most of the nation. “Livery Stable Blues,” the first studio number scratched ...

Colin Hancock is an early jazz historian who co-produced the album “The Moaniest Moan of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray, 1920-1922,” which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best ...

Tickets are on sale for the for the Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival, scheduled for April 3 to 6 in Durango. Ragtime and classic jazz musicians from around the United States will descend on ...

When the magazine began covering jazz in the 1920s, it often struggled to catch the beat. Ethan Iverson writes in this issue about a newly surfaced recording of pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe ...

An episode entitled "Early Jazz," from the television anthology called The Subject is Jazz. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white, 16 mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical ...

An ad for the steamer Sidney from August of 1920. There was plenty of competition among entertainment venues in New Orleans in 1919. There were vaudeville shows, moving pictures and concerts large and ...

Named in part for Johnny Dunn’s pioneering Jazz Hounds, the group channels each member’s heritage into vivid performances that honor the complex, cosmopolitan roots of Black popular music in the early ...

My education into Texas music has been a lifelong affair. My early youth was mostly dominated by the country and early rock-and-roll sounds my parents enjoyed and passed to me, my rebellious teens saw ...