About the Album: In the 1920s, Al Jolson was America's most famous and highest-paid entertainer and dubbed The World's Greatest Entertainer. He popularised many songs that benefited from his ...

A few music lovers were musing about jazz a couple of decades ago when Al Jolson’s name came up. A notable musician and scribe remarked: “I wear headphones when I play his records because ...

About the Album: Rare early recordings, some live, of Al Jolson from Chip Deffaa's own extensive collection. "Swanee," "Medley: Whispering / My Melancholy Baby / Poor Butterfly," "Ma Blushing ...

Richard Bernstein wastes no time dealing with the radioactive subject of blackface in his fascinating new biography of the Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson. He puts the rightly reviled practice ...

"The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, the first movie that incorporated synchronized speaking parts for its actors, was released on this day in history, Oct. 6, 1927. Primitive by today’s ...

It featured six popular songs performed by Al Jolson. Musical films were immediately popular and 1929 saw the appearance ... Rio Rita, which debuted on September 15, 1929, was based on the 1927 ...

Works in the artist’s show at the New York institution include a video installation in which he narrates a story of racially ...

Penguin Press The famously private Scarface actor — who titled the book after the childhood nickname his mother, Rose, gave him from the Al Jolson song of the same name — says he wanted to ...

Celebrity endorsements probably don't make much of a difference, experts told BI, but in a historically tight race there ...