Jazz music is an inherently elusive genre. While its roots stem from influences like European harmonics, African rhythms, ...

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 ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—The stage is set for a premier showcase of musical talent during the 2024 Charles H. Templeton Sr. Ragtime and Jazz Festival, taking place Feb. 22-24 at Mississippi State. MSU ...

Tickets are on sale for the for the Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival, scheduled for April 3 to 6 in Durango. Ragtime and classic jazz musicians from around the United States will descend on ...

Goodspeed has shared a new video of Mamie Parris performing "Back to Before" from Ragtime. The production runs now through June 15, 2025. A powerful musical about the dreams of three American families ...

"A bicentennial project: Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song" ; includes recordings from field and commercial sources. Notes include words of the songs, and bibliographical and discographical ...

In tall and feathery words, an ecstatic esthete in the New Republic called it “New York’s most important musical event of several decades.” The music of Bunk Johnson was not as good as all that, but ...

The syncopated cakewalking craze called ragtime was born just before the turn of the 20th Century and died in the blaze of jazz with World War I. To most jazz fans of today, it sounds like something ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Joshua Henry stars in an exhilarating gala revival of the 1998 musical about nothing less than the harmony and discord of America. By ...