Danny Coots and Adam Swanson became friends over a shared love of ragtime and early jazz music, that friendship coming decades after ragtime and early jazz were “new” styles of music. Coots was born ...

A new documentary, "The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit," will premiere on Prime Video on Dec. 9. The film is based on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colin Hancock is an early jazz historian who co-produced the album “The Moaniest Moan of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray, 1920-1922,” which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best ...

Harry Pace saw that there was profit to be made by Black people producing and distributing music for Black people. —Willie Ruff, musician and professor emeritus, Yale University Preamble: In 2020, I ...

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve ...

My education into Texas music has been a lifelong affair. My early youth was mostly dominated by the country and early rock-and-roll sounds my parents enjoyed and passed to me, my rebellious teens saw ...

An episode entitled "Early Jazz," from the television anthology called The Subject is Jazz. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white, 16 mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical ...

With hundreds of performances out at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, it's hard to know where to start. So Gambit has some suggestion for bands and musicians to see on Friday at the fest.