Listed below are full-length feature films that meet one or more of these criteria: The story is about jazz or jazz musicians; The film features performances by famous (or fictional) jazz musicians; ...

Anyone who watches “Boardwalk Empire,” about Atlantic City during the 1920s, when corruption ruled the boardwalk and Prohibition was basically ignored there, is familiar with Brooklynite Vince ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland was a happening city in the 1920s. The years between the Great War and the Great Depression were a time of great prosperity in the Fifth City. Soaring skyscrapers were ...

Born in Aiken, South Carolina, Bubber Miley was a key figure in the 1920s Harlem jazz scene and a pioneering trumpeter whose ...

There was a 13-year window in the United States around the turn of the 20th century during which alcohol was made illegal. That time period, known as prohibition, lasted from 1920 to 1933. The era, of ...

This story appears in Birmingham magazine's July 2016 Issue. Subscribe today! "Southern Artists To Make Records," the headline announced: "Making Of Phonograph Discs Is Birmingham's Latest Industrial ...

It has been called New Orleans jazz, Dixieland (a term that most of the musicians playing it despise), and most recently, “trad” (short for “traditional”) jazz. Ever since Benny Goodman exploded onto ...

Bias and fake news were always with us: The classic comedy “The Front Page” reminds us as it creates a snapshot of the fast-paced, rough-and-tumble world of Chicago journalism in the 1920s. The play ...

Any “Great Gatsby” party needs a good playlist. Here are 10 great jazz tunes that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s hero might have cued up in the Roaring ’20s: James P. Johnson, “Carolina Shout” (1921) The ...