The Jazz Age Lawn Party's organizer says the event has grown organically over its ten years, as more and more people dress to the nines. Photo by Laura June Kirsch for the Village Voice Photo by Laura ...
The period after World War I was a flowering of the arts when it came to illustration, music, and dance performance," said ...
One of the more adventurous and transformative eras in jazz happened amid the societal turbulence of the mid- to late-1960s, and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were leading the way. In his new book ...
The Urbana Pops Orchestra, celebrating its 15th birthday and led by its founder, Stephen L. Larson, gave a concert last Saturday in the Urbana High School auditorium. The orchestra, comprising ...
"The Roaring '20s: The Music of the Jazz Age," featuring the University of Arizona's Archive Ensemble presented by the UA School of Music, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Crowder Hall in the UA ...
I have a friend. I will not say his name. But he is to me what Charles Swann was to Marcel, the main character in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. My friend, who is a man about town, will often, ...
The book traces how swing, bebop, and big band music arrived in Bombay in the early 20th century, shaped the city's nightlife, and eventually found their way into the DNA of Bollywood film scores.
Typified by unison trumpets, an obbligato solo by clarinetist Bob Wilber and precise accompanying section work by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra... [this] was the first night of three evenings ...