By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities ... Public opposition to jazz fades as new generations embrace swing, big band, bebop, and later styles. However, during the Cold War, jazz is ...

Percussion prodigy and washboard wizard Jimmy Bertrand worked with Louis Armstrong and Ma Rainey and mentored future star Lionel Hampton.

The Scream of the Jazz Band in Interwar Poland) explores the oft-forgotten history of Interwar-era jazz – the development of the genre in the 1920s and 1930s took four stages. He begins by defining an ...