In the 1940's, some twenty-five to thirty years into the history of recorded jazz, the sometimes violent reaction against the bebop revolution caused a hard look into the rear view and the jazz world ...

Fortnight ago in the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans two oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid ...

This is the first in a series of programs that will play representative music from 100 years of jazz history. We will explore the broad sweep of that narrative; its representative and its ...

The inaugural 1959 Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicago was headlined by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and the Dukes of Dixieland, among others. It was the largest indoor jazz festival ...