Paris is a timeless and beautiful city, uniform in its Hausmann architecture and relaxed in its easy, cool charm. Not all jazz clubs here have the same presentation. These are some of the clubs and ...

It was after midnight at Le Duc des Lombards, and the jam session was warming up. A just-assembled quartet toyed with the jazz standard “Cherokee,” volleying solos until the melody was barely ...

Ever since the end of the First World War, France has been a center of activity and a place of honor for American jazz musicians who were often denied both—as well as fundamental civil rights—in the ...