Showing good reinvention skills over the decades since its “Dixieland Jazz” start in 1990, the 32nd annual Redwood Coast ...
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 ...
A regular performer in Sacramento, trumpet player Bria Skonberg celebrates New Orleans with her new album, “What It Means.” ...
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Swing’s the Thing
Swing dancing accompanied early jazz and symbolized freedom, a departure from stiff, formal European styles. There are basic ...
Tauranga’s legendary ‘Mighty Wurli’ is taking centre stage for a rare musical extravaganza that takes the lively, upbeat ...
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 ...
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 ...
SACRAMENTO — Jazz music has been a Sacramento summertime tradition for generations. The original Sacramento Dixieland Jazz ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Around every corner of the Big Eazy, there is someone singing a song about the place they call home. New ...
The Mississippi River moved and shaped jazz, delta blues and more. From local coverage to the presidential race, MinnPost's ...
Episode 10: A Masterpiece by Midnight During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble. Critics divide the music into "schools" - Dixieland, swing, bebop, hard bop, modal, free, avant-garde. But most young ...