Jazz: A History of America's Music Geoffrey C. Ward. Alfred A. Knopf, $65 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-679-44551-7. A companion volume to the new Burns and Ward documentaryDa 19-hour, 10-episode series set ...

Jazz Night in America showcases today's vital jazz scene while also underscoring the genre's storied history.The weekly one-hour radio show Jazz Night in America, with multiple Grammy Award ...

Today, visitors can go to the American Jazz Museum (located right at the famous intersection), which focuses on the history of the area in the jazz era—when folks like Count Basie, Lester Young ...

And because of all this, the genre of jazz has suffered. According to Nielsen’s 2014 year-end report, jazz is steadily falling out of favor with American listeners. In 2014 it was tied with classical ...

'Oxygen for the Ears: Living Jazz' is a story of the trials and triumphs of jazz in America. Every jazz tune has a start | dG1fN0VZeFJrLXYzNzA ...

For those of us engaged in trying to understand it, the history of jazz turns out to be much more than a study of this extraordinary American music. Jazz has offered a precise prism through which ...

In addition to her career as an international jazz artist she joined the history faculty at Cal State East Bay after earning a PhD from UC Berkeley. “Music Makers” isn’t only situation in ...

Mr English makes the persuasive argument that the birth of jazz, rooted in the African-American experience, was “nothing less than an attempt to achieve salvation through the tonal reordering of ...