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

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 ...

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 ...

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