In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

In 2005, fans and scholars of early jazz and blues were handed the keys to a buried treasure chest: an eight-CD set of recordings that New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton had made at the Library of ...

One hundred years ago this week, five New Orleans musicians made the first recording of a new genre of music unknown to most of the nation. “Livery Stable Blues,” the first studio number scratched ...

Think about the music pumping through your headphones right now. Where did it actually come from? Every beat, every guitar ...

Harry Pace saw that there was profit to be made by Black people producing and distributing music for Black people. —Willie Ruff, musician and professor emeritus, Yale University Preamble: In 2020, I ...

A group of jazz musicians playing at a historic pub have recreated an LP which was first recorded at the venue in 1979. Jazz ...

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 ...

An episode entitled "Early Jazz," from the television anthology called The Subject is Jazz. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white, 16 mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical ...

Tickets are on sale for the for the Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival, scheduled for April 3 to 6 in Durango. Ragtime and classic jazz musicians from around the United States will descend on ...

From modern jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette to masterful scatter and vocalist Nancy King, KNKX remembers the lives of notable jazz musicians who passed away this year.

My education into Texas music has been a lifelong affair. My early youth was mostly dominated by the country and early rock ’n’ roll sounds my parents enjoyed and passed to me, my rebellious teens saw ...

"They were creating these images at a time, for the most part, in the 20th century when traditional New Orleans jazz was fading in popularity." ...