The "Roaring Twenties," the "Jazz Age," the "Golden Age"; what happened in this decade that made it so "roaring, jazzy, and golden?" What made up the twenties? Known for fun...
The Roaring Twenties
The 1920s. It was the Jazz Age, the Era of Wonderful Nonsense, the Age of Babbitts,
Bootlegging, and Bathtub Gin. Americans were...
The Gershwin biographer Isaac Goldberg wrote in 1931 that with the Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin "fired the jazz shot heard round the world." This symphonic jazz concert...
Roaring Twenties. 24 February 2009.
• The 1920s era went by such names as the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance, and the Age of Wonderful Nonsense
• Under any moniker,...
The popularity of jazz musicians by black artists has experienced particularly high levels of advancement in Kansas City throughout history. "For a brief period from the late...
"In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after" (Al Hirt). Many people have sai...
Art by definition is the conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically...
Jazz is a type of music that soothes mind, body, and soul. Jazz has many subgenres such as New Orleans music from the early 1910s, Big Band Swing from the 1930s...