RECORDING jazz music in a studio is a far different proposition. In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, out of New Orleans, was the first jazz outfit ever to be recorded. There are rumors that ...

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Saxophone virtuoso Charlie Parker, left, brought Miles Davis, right, into his bebop band in the 1940s, Davis’s first professional job The Original Dixieland Jazz band, pictured in 1917 ...

Rose received her Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies from Roosevelt University in Chicago and owns the entertainment agency Lola Bard Productions, named for her grandmother, a 1930s vocalist who ...

SACRAMENTO — Jazz music has been a Sacramento summertime tradition for generations. The original Sacramento Dixieland Jazz ...

The most dramatic entrance of Southern-derived music on the national scene, however, came after 1917, when a few bands from New Orleans, including the Original Dixieland jazz Band and Joe "King ...

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...

New York was postwar America’s jazz capital and its capital of drug commerce and consumption. Had New Orleans, another port city, become a heroin hub in the 1910s, Dixieland jazz doubtless would have ...

Enslaved people would sing work songs while working the plantations and religious spirituals in church. Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The ...

11—The sound that would come to be called "Dixieland" developed from the jazz music of early 20th ... not least the genre's namesake, the Original Dixieland Jass Band, whose 1917 recordings ...

A regular performer in Sacramento, trumpet player Bria Skonberg celebrates New Orleans with her new album, “What It Means.” ...

Thurl was selected in 1983 by the Utah Jazz as the 7th overall pick of the NBA Draft. He spent 9 of his sixteen-year professional basketball career with the Jazz, 3 years with the Minnesota ...