The date was 26 February 1917, and this novelty song, Livery Stable Blues by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, was the first jazz recording. Wikipedia The Original Dixieland Jass Band’s Livery ...

Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: American Jazz Museum has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2001 Vignette. The year with the highest average number of views ...

Few figures in free jazz ever sustained a voice so unsparingly intense, over so long a tenure. "His medium is screaming energy music with a deliberately manic edge," wrote the American critic John ...

Rocking didn’t help, nor did a car ride. Finally, Alexander put on a few records and found the solution: It was jazz, Baby, jazz! “So I would play her Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald,” he ...

Ornette Coleman, one of jazz's most groundbreaking artists who brushed aside convention with his prophetically titled 1959 album The Shape of Jazz to Come, has died at 85. His death was confirmed ...