The Jazz Age Lawn Party's organizer says the event has grown organically over its ten years, as more and more people dress to the nines. Photo by Laura June Kirsch for the Village Voice Photo by Laura ...

One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...

The period after World War I was a flowering of the arts when it came to illustration, music, and dance performance," said ...

I have a friend. I will not say his name. But he is to me what Charles Swann was to Marcel, the main character in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. My friend, who is a man about town, will often, ...

The Urbana Pops Orchestra, celebrating its 15th birthday and led by its founder, Stephen L. Larson, gave a concert last Saturday in the Urbana High School auditorium. The orchestra, comprising ...

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 ...

“Jazz Age Illustration” acknowledges both the music and the high spirits. But its concerns, as the show’s title indicates, ...

"The Roaring '20s: The Music of the Jazz Age," featuring the University of Arizona's Archive Ensemble presented by the UA School of Music, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Crowder Hall in the UA ...

The book traces how swing, bebop, and big band music arrived in Bombay in the early 20th century, shaped the city's nightlife, and eventually found their way into the DNA of Bollywood film scores.

There’s been plenty of buzz preceding this disc. Parlato won the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition and self-released a wonderful, self-titled debut disc. Now her sophomore ...

The Delaware Art Museum returns visitors to the 1920s during “Jazz Age Illustration,” the first major exhibition to survey the art of popular illustration in the United States between 1919 and 1942.