It was the largest indoor jazz festival ever at the time. In 1959, the New Orleans native Dukes of Dixieland were the “number one jazz combo in the country”, according to Ed Sullivan ...

Powell before that two years later in December of 1947 performing his arrangement of “Way Down Yonder In New Orleans,” at one of his last jazz recording dates in the 1940s; a musicians ...

Jazz's New Orleans roots represent just one stage of ... Jazz was immensely popular as dance music (until the 1940s when bop came in,) and in rural areas, bands regularly played at road houses ...

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...

Ironically, just as a revival of New Orleans Jazz was taking off in the early 1940s—and Jelly himself was being rediscovered—he died of respiratory problems stemming from the wounds he ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

The music originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States ... Bebop, a fast tempo, complex sub-genre of jazz emerged from the 1940s, brought shining lights such ...