Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century ... when Dan Rice-for the first time in American history-"blacked up" for a variety show in New York's Bowery district. The show became ...

So much of our history is about establishing records ... Around this time, jazz labels across America were both excited and challenged by the opportunities afforded by the coming of the long ...

For those of us engaged in trying to understand it, the history of jazz turns out to be much more than a study of this extraordinary American music. Jazz has offered a precise prism through which ...

MSU jazz studies director Rodney Whitaker was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in September.

This February at the museum, we're celebrating a new season of the podcast, commemorating Black History Month, and listening ...

Crosby Kemper full conversation discussing the importance of this vibrant center for Black history and culture with NLBM President Bob Kendrick, American Jazz Museum’s Muriel Boyd, and authors ...

Navigate your way around the major music festivals of America and zoom to discover ... including The History of Jazz, Delta Blues and How to Listen to Jazz. His next book, Music: A Subversive ...

When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the ...

Despite winning two Naismith Player of the Year awards in his final two seasons with the Purdue Boilermakers, the media was ...