The 1920s, often called the “Jazz Age,” was a significant period for jazz music, characterized by the emergence of influential artists who shaped the genre. This decade saw the rise of Louis ...

Postmodern Jukebox teamed up with singer Veronica Swift to perform a bouncy 1920s hot jazz cover of the 1987 Aerosmith song “Rag Doll”. As she sang, Swift’s fabulous swingy dress kept time ...

The Scopes trial was a signature event of the Jazz Age. It had that "ballyhoo" spirit so typical of the 1920s. In one way, however, it was atypical. The Scopes trial took place in a little town in ...

By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...

Black Americans developed jazz at the turn of the century. The improvised music combined elements of ragtime, blues, spirituals, and band music. By the 1920s, jazz had migrated across the border ...

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

Out of this musical melting pot came jazz. Since the ‘Jazz Age’ of the 1920s, jazz has become a major genre in musical expression, and its development has allowed for the rise of different breakout ...