British bandleader Alex Mendham, who is launching an Art Deco Dance Series in San Francisco this month, has long been ...

A Brooklyn jazz band aims to shake your booty and to shake up the staid image of their genre. Sweet Megg and the Wayfarers will host a wild party on Sept. 14 to launch its second, self-titled album, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Experience 1940s Harlem in the Tony Award-winning buoyant musical Ain't Misbehavin ...

Jazz great Duke Ellington and his orchestra attracted big crowds to the Cotton Club, the famous New York City hotspot, in the late 20s and early 30s. As a tribute to Ellington and the jazz era, ...

In the last hour, we heard Count Basie emerge as an exciting new voice from Kansas City. In this hour, we return to New York to follow Duke Ellington's innovative path through the 1930s as he ...

There were dance halls, speakeasies, jazz clubs, nightclubs, rock 'n' roll clubs, discos and more. See the history of the ...

Paul Samuel “Pops” Whiteman was a 1920s and 1930s bandleader, composer, orchestra director, and producer who was so notorious he earned the nickname “King of Jazz” from the press of his time. So, ...

This time of year just doesn’t feel right without hearing season-appropriate songs like “Monster Mash” and “This is Halloween” from The Nightmare Before Christmas (a film our own Dan Casey has strong ...

Toward the end of the Jazz Age, the music world ushered in a new phenomenon: the all-girl band. Connecticut’s contribution was the Novelty Syncopators, a New Britain-based group formed in the late ...