The Delaware Art Museum returns visitors to the 1920s during “Jazz Age Illustration,” the first major exhibition of popular ...

Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues ...

The Harlem Renaissance gave voice to the black experience ... On October 1, 1941, a group of musicians recorded "King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)." Jazz pianist and band leader Count Basie wrote the ...

Johnson, Bentley helped shape the sound and aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance, a movement that cemented jazz and the Blues ...

This year, a team of Times journalists marked the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance with a series examining its ...

The Harlem Renaissance gave voice to the black experience ... On October 1, 1941, a group of musicians recorded "King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)." Jazz pianist and band leader Count Basie wrote the ...

1924, where he became a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural ... the Harlem arts scene and immersed himself in ...

Kate Molleson and biographer Peter Pullman discuss Bud Powell’s return to New York in 1964. After five years in Paris, his homecoming was heralded with great fanfare.

Few figures capture the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance more than Fats Waller ... and helped bridge the gap between the world of jazz and mainstream popular music. Now, Musical Theatre West ...

Much like in a jazz or cabaret club ... only Waller but all African-American performers of the genre during the Harlem Renaissance, honorably celebrating the jazz, blues, and swing music they ...