1930 marked a significant change in the sound of jazz-oriented bands in New York, on radio, recordings, and in live performance. That year, Red Nichols, who’d been the most trend-setting white ...

At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the ...

In 2010, the acquisition of William Savory's legendary collection of almost 1,000 live recordings had jazz fans salivating. Now, 40 restored... Once The Stuff Of Jazz Legend, 1930s Recordings Are ...

The Dude Ranch, Paul's Paradise, the Frat Hall, the Savoy, Lil' Sandy's, Jackie's - these are some of the colorful names of Portland's jazz joints of decades past. The popular clubs featured dancing, ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article Marquee of Apollo Theatre in 1946. Photo by William P. Gottlieb from Library of Congress. Cab Calloway and his Orchestra performing at the Cotton Club in ...

The year 1930 found itself sandwiched between the fading glitz and glamour of the Roaring Twenties and the harsh realities of ...

Paul Samuel “Pops” Whiteman was a 1920s and 1930s bandleader, composer, orchestra director, and producer who was so notorious he earned the nickname “King of Jazz” from the press of his time. So, ...

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actors Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris offer narratives drawn from the memoirs of Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith and Langston Hughes. The Jim Cullum Jr. Jazz Band and the Hot Club ...

For Samara Joy, music runs in her blood. Her paternal grandparents founded The Savettes, a gospel group originating in Philadelphia. Her father was a famous bassist who toured with famed gospel artist ...