Today, Andre Previn is viewed by many jazz fans as a jazz pretender—a dyed-in-the wool classical pianist and conductor and a prolific film composer who can manage jazz impersonation but shouldn't ...

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 ...

Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements of the Swing Era began to emerge. It is the first book on early jazz history in over ...

Location: New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, United States The vibrant history and evolution of New Orleans jazz will take center stage as the New Orleans Jazz Museum prepares to ...

In 2005, fans and scholars of early jazz and blues were handed the keys to a buried treasure chest: an eight-CD set of recordings that New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton had made at the Library of ...