When the magazine began covering jazz in the 1920s, it often struggled to catch the beat. Ethan Iverson writes in this issue about a newly surfaced recording of pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe ...

One hundred years ago, it was easy, despite three solid years of Prohibition, to get a celebratory drink on New Year’s Eve in Cincinnati. The new year began with multiple fatal accidents, many blamed ...

An ad for the steamer Sidney from August of 1920. There was plenty of competition among entertainment venues in New Orleans in 1919. There were vaudeville shows, moving pictures and concerts large and ...

Exhibition catalog published on the occassion of the exhibition, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, April 7 to August 20, 2017, and The Cleveland ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass ...

Real Scenes of 1920s USA - Rare Colorized Photos of Vintage America Today, we embark on a journey to the vibrant twenties in America – an era that gave birth to jazz, embraced flapper fashion, and ...

At the height of the Roaring Twenties, flappers took to the floor, arms flailing and feet kicking to a new beat: the Charleston. A century later, the dance still captivates—especially for performer, ...

For director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz, not much has changed since they attended Harvard together — at least not when it comes to how they work together. "So much of it is just like ...