In 1922, the centennial anniversary we celebrate this year, jazz legend Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago. His music would soon fill venues like Dreamland Cafe, Lincoln Gardens, Sunset Café, and ...

The Nazis called it “Judeo-Negroid” music and banned it from German radio. Joseph Goebbels once described it as “music in which rhythm is indicated primarily by the ugly sounds of whining instruments.

What do a trumpeter from a band called Sex Mob, a popular hip-hop session musician and a Latino percussionist who once played for Yiddish theater have in common? They all play jazz infused with Jewish ...

From Berlin to Buenos Aires, from the melodies that bring ecstasy, to cool jazz and hot klezmer, the 25th Jewish Music Festival has embraced the entire multifaceted world of Jewish experience and let ...

Jazz news: Radical Jewish Music Festival in Philadelphia - March 1-4 Presented by Ars Nova Workshop. Posted in “Performance / Tour” column. Published: February 19, 2008 @ All About Jazz ...

Nabil Ayers carries the surname of a famous father he barely knows, except in the ubiquitous music of Roy Ayers – most famously in the 1976 jazz-soul-funk album by that name featuring the hit ...

This summer the Jewish Cultural Center is exploring the relationships between Jews, Blues and All That Jazz through exhibitions, a CD release event, a film and concerts. The Jewish Federation is ...

This year’s slate of Jewish Grammy nominees offers a little something for everyone. The nominees for the 2023 Grammy Awards, announced on Tuesday, include prominent Jewish names from pop and rap, but ...

The same June evening avant-gardist junkies flocked to Roulette to pay tribute to free jazz radical Milford Graves at Vision Fest, Greenpoint metal venue Saint Vitus played host to another kind of ...

Does anyone else feel like 2010 has been particularly flush with big-name indie-rock bands getting back together? Pavement and Guided By Voices aside, another seminal outfit reassembling for a tour ...

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In the late 1930s, Jewish clarinetist and jazz bandleader Benny Goodman, known as the King of Swing, invited two Black musicians — Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton — to play in his orchestra. It was a ...