From the latter part of the Jazz Age through the Swing Era, big bands dominated the jazz scene and a large part of the entertainment industry. After World War II, their fortunes declined, but their ...

Through the dim and smoky atmosphere of the Manhattan jazz den called Birdland came some old and familiar piano tones. The holiday crowd quieted and the music took over, its tones pure and glassy, its ...

As anyone who's recently attended a show by Foreigner or Lynyrd Skynyrd knows, it's become as common as a guitar solo to see a classic rock & roll outfit without any original members in the lineup.

The West Virginia coalfields would seem an unlikely place to hear Big Band jazz during the Great Depression. But research by Christopher Wilkinson, a professor of music history at West Virginia ...