Originally published in London in 1986 by Quartet Books LTD, Bob Gordon's seminal work on the jazz styles and groups that developed primarily in Los Angeles in the 1950s has long been out-of-print and ...

For the past 100 years, jazz music and dancing has been banned from New Orleans public schools. The ban was impossible to enforce and failed to prevent a long line of jazz musicians from honing their ...

New Orleans has long been known as the birthplace of jazz music, but for exactly a century the genre has technically been forbidden in the entire public school system. The rule was added formally on ...

Most people would probably take a linear, historical view of jazz in an attempt to understand its complex history. Walter van de Leur, Professor of Jazz and Improvised Music at the University of ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The school board in the city where jazz took root is preparing to undo a little-known 1922 rule that bans jazz music and dancing in public schools. Officials tell The Times-Picayune ...

A 100-year-old ban on jazz music and dancing in New Orleans' public schools has finally been lifted — though it was never really enforced. A 100-year-old ban on jazz music and dancing in New Orleans ...

Starz airs British miniseries about jazz, race and class as seen through the lens of Stephen Poliakoff and brought to life with elegant performances from Chiwetel Ejiofor and Janet Montgomery. By Tim ...

At the Newport Jazz Festival this weekend, I was joined by WBGO web producers Tim Wilkins and Alex Rodriguez, who were helping with our broadcast and recording. You ...