Jazz lovers know that gypsy guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt was one of the genre’s stars during the ’30s and ’40s — a fact that will be celebrated on Friday at the 10th annual Django a Gogo tribute ...

Everything old is new again. A Bushwick jazz singer is offering a musical retro refuge for those looking for respite from increasingly bleak world news. Tatiana Eva-Marie, whose latest album “Je suis ...

For Samara Joy, music runs in her blood. Her paternal grandparents founded The Savettes, a gospel group originating in Philadelphia. Her father was a famous bassist who toured with famed gospel artist ...

Toward the end of the Jazz Age, the music world ushered in a new phenomenon: the all-girl band. Connecticut’s contribution was the Novelty Syncopators, a New Britain-based group formed in the late ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Experience 1940s Harlem in the Tony Award-winning buoyant musical Ain't Misbehavin ...

Be carried back to the tight, smoky jazz clubs of 1930's Paris with the Hot Club of San Francisco. Often called gypsy jazz, the music of The Hot Club of San Francisco has entranced audiences around ...

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After being in Hollywood for 28 years, the producer of such films as The Way Way Back and Begin Again decided on a different challenge.

Paul Samuel “Pops” Whiteman was a 1920s and 1930s bandleader, composer, orchestra director, and producer who was so notorious he earned the nickname “King of Jazz” from the press of his time. So, ...

At 21, Alan Lomax went to Haiti and recorded its citizens making music - songs about Voodoo, carnival politics, children's games and the first airplanes crisscrossing its Caribbean skies in the late ...

This time of year just doesn’t feel right without hearing season-appropriate songs like “Monster Mash” and “This is Halloween” from The Nightmare Before Christmas (a film our own Dan Casey has strong ...