By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...

In 1939, two consecutive engagements Ellington played were a dance in a tobacco warehouse ... who insist that all real jazz is improvised and that all the solos must be impromptu often claim ...

An energetic dance associated with the carnivals of ... They are commonly heard in salsa and Afro-Cuban jazz and play solos which contain improvisation. Music containing the pan pipes can be ...

Wynton Marsalis is a great man, but his Fourth, “The Jungle”, is no masterpiece, not even a symphony – a dance suite, maybe, with enough bold textures to recall wandering attentions. We needed less of ...