Louis Armstrong has been rightly hailed as the most important figure in early jazz for almost as long as Paul Whiteman, once its biggest star, has been denied his due. Under the racially apologist ...

On Aug. 28, 1939, a special Lincoln Zephyr automobile was dispatched from Rochester to Minneapolis to fetch a king. When the car returned to Rochester and pulled to a stop in front of the Chateau ...

Doesn’t everyone have an Aunt Bertha and Uncle Walter? They sure made memories for me, their surrogate kid, writes Paul Keane in a guest column today.

Jazz music is descending into the final pit of banality by becoming serious. The other evening Paul Whiteman with his Palais Royal band treated Manhattan to a formal jazz recital in a concert hall. It ...

Approximate recreation of the original concert, Feb. 12, 1924, by use of contemporary recordings. Title from container: An experiment in modern music. Program notes by Thornton Hagert, including ...

The worst thing that ever happened to Paul Whiteman's legacy was the 1930 film that dubbed him "the King of Jazz." Largely as a result of that unfortunate moniker he became an object of scorn among ...