Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sacré-Cœur Basilica, Paris, France In the roaring twenties, the world buzzed with jazz rhythms and a spirit of liberation. It was ...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis wandered along the Seine and felt free. Louis Armstrong sought refuge from the Jim Crow American South at the Hôtel Alba Opéra. Dancer Josephine Baker ...

Put on your black turtleneck, pour an absinthe, light up a Gauloise, and get ready for an evening in a 1950s Paris cafe. Kansas University’s Stage Too! has become a cabaret, and a talented ensemble of ...

Drummer Art Blakey had a knack for attracting the best young talent to his ever-changing groups,collectively known as The Jazz Messengers. Over the 1950s, 1960s, and beyond,this was a proving ground ...

Max Colchester reports from Paris on the inauguration.In the 1960s, a number of African American jazz musicians moved to Paris looking for artistic inspiration and shelter from racial discrimination.

The Jazz Repertory Company presents a billet-doux à nos amis with its tribute to Edith Piaf, Josephine Baker and the joyous jazz of Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt’s Quintette du Hot Club de ...