A few music lovers were musing about jazz a couple of decades ago when Al Jolson’s name came up. A notable musician and scribe remarked: “I wear headphones when I play his records because people might ...

The 1930 movie musical “Mammy" is an important -- if almost shockingly racially insensitive -- piece in the canon of the legendary Al Jolson's career. “Mammy" stars “The World's Greatest Entertainer" ...

Albert Jolson, a Nashville recording studio owner and the son of legendary entertainer Al Jolson and Erle Galbraith Jolson, died March 4 in Nashville following a two-month battle with pneumonia. He ...

If Al Jolson wasn't the meanest, nastiest, most self-centered performer in show business, he campaigned hard for the title. If Stephen Mo Hanan's eerie musical impersonation of the legendary ...

Don Shirley’s commentary on Al Jolson’s life and career simply flies in the face of facts (“Let Sleeping Eras and Their Stars Lie,” May 15). He left out significant components of Jolson’s successful ...

Al Jolson wasn't the first choice to star in "The Jazz Singer," even though it was inspired by a Jolson concert and is partially based on his life story. But when the actor chosen for the lead role, ...

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Thirty-seven years ago, 12-year-old Ira Green went on vacation to Miami Beach with his mom, dad and sisters. "My sisters and I had a singing act and were supposed to be in a talent show that night," ...

Contained in the article regarding the fundraiser for the police officers involved in the Freddie Gray case is a description of Al Jolson by the Fraternal Order of Police as an “iconic racist figure.” ...