Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Wein, who set the standard for what outdoor music gatherings would become with his leadership of the Newport Folk and Jazz ...

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 ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - In the Hungary of the 1950s, jazz music was a dangerous pastime - but music lovers got some clandestine help from the United States government. Jazz was a tool of U.S. Cold ...

Accolades for an English musician don't come more exotic than a description of Chris Barber as the "Bix Beiderbecke of British- style jazz"— this, from the pen of musicologist David Boulton back in ...

Since the early 1900s, blues musicians have performed in Shreveport. In the late 1950s, bigger name acts began performing in town while the 1960s saw the development of local record labels such as ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...