Cornet player Muggsy Spanier was a member of the famed Austin High Gang and fell for jazz the minute he saw King Oliver playing live in Chicago. His first professional job came in 1921 with the Elmer ...

Los Angeles jazz fans, eager for more of the blast and blare of Memphis Blues and Black and Blue, peered through the haze of a nightclub called Tiffany’s one night last week at a sight seldom seen in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtime Band.

The music wafting out of the examination room and down the halls at New Orleans’ Ochsner Medical Center last week sounded like an import of old-time Chicago jazz, played from the heart. It was.

WOKING Jazz Circle opens its 2006 season with a tribute to the late great cornettist Muggsy Spanier on Sunday. The conception of the circle’s clarinettist Brian White and trumpeter Alan Gresty, Muggsy ...