A hundred years after The Great Gatsby shone a light on extravagant Long Island mansions and secret speakeasies, the spirit ...
The Jazz Age glorified city life ... In 1921 she said in a speech, "We now have music by machines, we travel by machines — soon we will be having machines to do our thinking." ...
A port city on the Gulf of Mexico, people would come from all over the world to New Orleans to trade, socialise and share their music. Out of this musical melting pot came jazz. Since the ‘Jazz Age’ ...
Roy Ayers, the jazz-soul vibraphonist and bandleader behind 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine,' whose music became the backbone ...
The Museum of the City of New York recently unveiled the refurbished Stettheimer Dollhouse, the decades-long creation of ...
The legendary American vibraphonist, composer and pioneer of jazz-funk died Tuesday, his family said. He was 84.
The world-renowned musician — a nine-time Grammy Award winner and Pulitzer Prize holder — was given his first trumpet at age 6 ... a Grammy in both jazz and classical music in the same ...
He helped introduce a funkier strain of the music in the 1970s. He also had an impact on hip-hop: His “Everybody Loves the ...