The prologue that opens Ragtime loudly announces the musical’s epic ambitions as its nine fictional characters and six of its historical figures introduce themselves with third-person narration and ...

Ragtime enthusiasts and curious listeners alike can dive into the roots and evolution of early jazz during Ragtime Day NOLA, a three-day celebration at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. New Orleans has ...

Jazz has always invited space for growth and pushing boundaries, with these five acts being some of the most exciting that ...

Norton will perform a concert of vaudeville blues, old-time country and vintage Americana folk music at Evansville Art Center ...

Eddie Condon's sharp wit, swinging banjo, and propulsive guitar helped shape the hot sound of Chicago jazz in the 1920s and ...

As we celebrate International Jazz Day, Anne casts her mind back to the pre-Beatles days of jiving the night away to the ...

Choosing just 20 of the best Billie Holiday songs seems like an impossible task, but these songs tell the story of Lady Day’s ...

Music has always been a way not only for humans to connect with their own homes and histories, but to share them with others ...

Teal Wicks, most recently seen starring at the Hobby Center in the National Tour of & Juliet, sings from her career on ...

There's a reason historians keep circling back to jazz. Not because it's the most commercially dominant genre today - ...

We like to figure out the whys and hows of things. It's our way of making sense of the world around us. But there are often ...