Upon receiving a copy of Richard Bernstein’s “Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer,” I thought: He wouldn’t say ...

Some creators still want audiences to focus on what they see and hear on screen, not what their characters say. Here are a ...

with important shift being opera and jazz as the genres favoured by the protagonists, it is still worth of noting that Al Jolson (aka Asa Yoelson) was born and grew up in the region of Kaunas – not ...

Al Jolson turned personal family drama into the grist for his star turn in “The Jazz Singer.” Review by Gary Giddins Read the ...

This increased to 110 million by 1929. The increase was partly due to the development of audio films in 1927, with Al Jolson starring in The Jazz Singer (1927) marking the beginning of the era of ...