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The father of ‘Ethio Jazz’ on performing for Haile Selassie, Africa’s rich instrumental heritage — and how a film gave him a late-career boost ...

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

Showing good reinvention skills over the decades since its “Dixieland Jazz” start in 1990, the 32nd annual Redwood Coast ...

Jazz was immensely popular as dance music (until the 1940s when bop came in,) and in rural areas, bands regularly played at road houses, dance clubs, movie theaters, juke joints, and vaudeville stops.

In Stalinist Poland, jazz music was banned along with modern art ... his professional jazz pianist career started at the 1st Sopot Jazz Festival in 1956 with Janusz Grzewiński's Dixieland band and his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 and popular music Singer ...

A Dixieland Jazz band established by brothers Fred and Frank Assunto, and their dad Papa Jac Assunto. Some say the Dixieland ...

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.

...GALE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY EVENING THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Highest gusts up to 45 kts from the south and highest waves around 9 ...