In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

Harry Pace saw that there was profit to be made by Black people producing and distributing music for Black people. —Willie Ruff, musician and professor emeritus, Yale University Preamble: In 2020, I ...

Tickets are on sale for the for the Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival, scheduled for April 3 to 6 in Durango. Ragtime and classic jazz musicians from around the United States will descend on ...

While the rest of the country was keeping blacks and whites apart in the early 20th century, jazz musicians — including Davenport’s own Bix Beiderbecke — were living in harmony. Randy Sandke, a ...

An episode entitled "Early Jazz," from the television anthology called The Subject is Jazz. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white, 16 mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical ...

Danny Coots and Adam Swanson became friends over a shared love of ragtime and early jazz music, that friendship coming decades after ragtime and early jazz were “new” styles of music. Coots was born ...

Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ...

Jelly Roll Morton was an American character so outrageous, that only he could have invented himself. Born Ferdinand Lamothe, sometimes spelled LaMothe, Lamenthe, LaMenthe, Lamotte, and Lemott, he ...