Amongst the many brilliant musicians to be killed in the war was jazz pioneer Szymon Kataszek, and popular musical titan Artur Gold. Henryk Wars, meanwhile, established a Tea-Jazz Orchestra in Lviv ...

Jazz's popularity grows, and as it attracts a wider audience, so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz ...

Its early coverage of jazz reflected both tendencies, signaling an openness to the emerging form even as it offered a rather patronizing take on the music’s significance. “There are times ...

When you think of Kansas City and New Orleans, what comes to mind? For many, it's the music—the jazz, the rhythm, and the deep-rooted history.

jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve never heard. Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson and pianist McCoy Tyner. Sometime in the late 1960s or early ’70s, Lee Morgan bought his girlfriend ...

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of ...