Las Vegans are welcome to briefly visit a jazzier, glitzier place and time – a night club in the 1930s or 1940s, to be exact ...

By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...

I have often wondered why Ireland hasn’t produced more gifted jazz musicians like Cork pianist John Donegan. Researching Irish jazz history, I ...

which began to infect the most famous dance floors and inspire the leading musicians of the age. But the development of the jazz craze in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s was slow and erratic – and never ...

Nicknamed “Lady Day” by the saxophonist Lester Young, her star brightened in the 1930s behind a string of hit songs and notable live performances in Harlem. In what was the hottest jazz scene ...