Jazz clubs were packed, and street corners buzzed with sound. And right in the middle of it all, Harlem Renaissance music was changing the way the world listened. But most people only know the surface ...

While the "3-minute single" was the rule for radio, the jazz world of the mid-20th century operated on a different internal clock. With the arrival of the Long Play (LP) record, jazz musicians finally ...

The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...