Kimberly Cooper was in New Orleans last May when she took in a show by jazz trumpeter and vocalist Marla Dixon.

Six of the eight freshmen are Minnesota natives and have been dreaming of being members of the University of Minnesota dance ...

Another reminder — with live musical demonstrations on stage — is coming to Kiggins Theatre. As part of its ongoing History on Tap collaboration with the Clark County Historical Museum, Kiggins will ...

It is about movement and dance and showing your behind ... drama and parade we call American history. When I began this project, I had perhaps two jazz records in my fairly large collection.

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 ...

There is a viral trend underway where dancers execute hypnotic body rolls, hip isolations, and rhythmically sway to the ...

By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...

The chapter “Our Mainstream Jazz” describes how, by 1970, jazz gained a modernist, formalized sensibility after the influence ...