Discover how New Orleans' cultural blend created jazz through 7 pivotal developments, from Congo Square gatherings to Louis ...

Newly published by Oxford, “Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong” finishes ... We all knew that Armstrong’s “West End Blues,” based on a melody by Joseph “King” Oliver — the man ...

Born in 1909, around the same time that trad jazz was emerging in New Orleans, Barker lived with his parents, Moses Barker ...

The 1920s were a period of great change. Vintage photographs provide a glimpse at what life was like for women throughout the decade.

Programme: This will be a performance of music from the likes of Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong's Hot 5, King Oliver and other pioneers of early Jazz, Ragtime and Blues from the 1920's and 30's.

The New York Times reported that Hardin helped her future husband Louis Armstrong become band leader of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band; she also served as his first manager and was a pianist and ...

South Dakota might be right at the heart of a fun idea to celebrate American history as we head into the nation's ...

A look at blues, ragtime, and jazz, as performed by artists such as Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and others, and how it is tied into the civil rights struggle led by Martin Luther King.

Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago in early August 1922 to play with King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, and in April the following year they went to Gennett’s studio at the Starr Piano factory to ...

In celebration of Saturday’s Australian Club Championship showdown between Brothers and Easterm Suburbs at Crosby Park, we ...