And, just missing last week’s deadline, the final piece of the complicated jazz festival jigsaw has been unveiled — the Uptown Downtown series. It’s a really good new idea: a bunch of free music aimed ...

It has its origins in the saloon bars and dance halls of African-American communities. Ragtime music was written down, not improvised. Scott Joplin was the most famous ragtime composer.

Danny Coots and Adam Swanson became friends over a shared love of ragtime and early jazz music, that friendship coming decades after ragtime and early jazz were “new” styles of music. Coots was born ...

The Legacy of Lillian Hardin Armstrong article by Karl Ackermann, published on April 10, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Backstories articles ...

Some people think that ragtime started with Irving Berlin’s Alexander’s Ragtime Band. Others, better informed, know that when Berlin’s song appeared (1911) ragtime had long since passed its ...

Programme: This will be a performance of music from the likes of Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong's Hot 5, King Oliver and other ...

I went to see the jazz pianist Jason Moran perform at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Playing the music of Duke ...

Jazz begins in New Orleans ... Here, in the 1890s, African-American musicians create a new music out of these ingredients by mixing in ragtime syncopations and the soulful feeling of the blues.