Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues singer in Parisian nightclubs. A 1934 portrait of Nora Holt by Carl Van ...

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Jazz musicians like Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong recorded the most well-known versions of this classic crossover song with no known author.

Composer and pianist Valerie Capers is at home in both the classical and jazz worlds. In her suite Portraits in Jazz, Capers captures the spirit of jazz in a series of vivid musical sketches. Hear ...

A mathematical study conducted at Viterbo, Italy’s University of Tuscia has found evidence that jazz and classical music structures have become simpler over time. The analysis, published on April 23 ...

George Gershwin’s 1924 composition Rhapsody in Blue is so timeless that it seems scarcely possible that he composed it 100 years ago. Its centenary offers us a special opportunity to celebrate this ...

Desafinado; Cheek To Cheek; Sophistacted Lady; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Satin Dolls; It Never Entered My Mind; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Body And Soul; Cantaloupe Island; The Seventh Sign; Walk On ...

In the past, classical music purists often assumed jazz artists had no knowledge of Western classical music, and were therefore inferior musicians. The image of the classical-music ignorant jazzman ...