In 1925 the Jazz Age was in full swing. It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom of the Opera opened at movie theaters. The Ku Klux Klan marched ...

The chapter “Our Mainstream Jazz” describes how, by 1970, jazz gained a modernist, formalized sensibility after the influence ...

A century ago, the Jazz Age was in full swing, Mount Rushmore was on its way to becoming a lasting U.S. memorial, and Hitler ...

Please note that material donations cannot come directly to the Center. The Swing Era provided the sound track to the Great Depression and World War II, and in its music lie the stories of one of the ...

The producer helped bring about the swing era in the 1930s, but a new set highlights the later jazz recordings he oversaw in ...

who now leads Dan Gabel and the Abletones which plays Swing era classics. "This is definitely a special era of music," ...

Each band had its own arranger, who wrote the music. Although there were still some improvised solos in swing music, playing the parts that were written by the arranger was very important.

Featuring seven jazz standards reimagined in the band ... The band’s mission, Kaedin said, was to recreate the sound of the 1950s swing era while adding Ella’s vocals and also experimenting ...

In 1925 the Jazz Age was in full swing. It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom of the Opera opened at movie theaters. The Ku Klux Klan marched ...