Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz, saying it sounds better ... the venues that serve alcohol and hire black musicians. These speakeasies allow whites ...

While drawing influences from both old and new, We attempt a unique spin on something that has been spun many times over. A combination of Blues, Folk, and Jazz that will not only knock your socks off ...

Michael Brecker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and exposed to jazz at an early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. Among the generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the ...

and mainly African American musicians, jazz was firmly established on the European side of the Atlantic by the early 1920s. European musicians initially based much of their jazz vocabulary on the ...

Notable early jazz musicians include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, and King Oliver. Singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday gave jazz a global stardom, and a political edge in ...

The first traces of jazz were heard in elite social settings, where Indian musicians were introduced to Western instruments like the saxophone and trumpet. The early Indian musicians, influenced ...

Volland is thrilled to host an exceptional afternoon of jazz featuring six talented musicians from the University of Missouri ...