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 ...

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 ...

Harry Pace saw that there was profit to be made by Black people producing and distributing music for Black people. —Willie Ruff, musician and professor emeritus, Yale University Preamble: In 2020, I ...

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 ...

Our writer heads to the city where 'jazz came of age', to soak in the history of the genre, as well as join in with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Master jazz improvisation, syncopation, and blue notes through the lens of New Orleans history. From Congo Square to Chicago, ...

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 ...