Jazz listeners may admit that early music got things to where they are now, similar to how the Model T made the Lamborghini possible. Most just prefer not to drive anything too old. For most listeners ...

Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements of the Swing Era began to emerge. It is the first book on early jazz history in over ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass ...

In 2005, fans and scholars of early jazz and blues were handed the keys to a buried treasure chest: an eight-CD set of recordings that New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton had made at the Library of ...

Location: New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, United States The vibrant history and evolution of New Orleans jazz will take center stage as the New Orleans Jazz Museum prepares to ...

The hauntingly beautiful 'wailing' sounds of early New Orleans jazz clarinets, often featured in brass bands or jazz funerals, are one of the most distinctive instrument styles in American music. The ...

When the magazine began covering jazz in the 1920s, it often struggled to catch the beat. Ethan Iverson writes in this issue about a newly surfaced recording of pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe ...