BATTLE CREEK --Patrons got a musical lesson as they listened to jazz pianist Dick Hyman at noon Tuesday at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Hyman, who has researched early jazz and its practitioners, ...
It’s standing-room-only on a late February afternoon at tony Occidental College in Los Angeles, where some 200 students are about to learn that genius can come in unexpected forms. The guest lecturer ...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Piano master Ed Clute will lead his Dixieland sextet in a concert for the Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse this Sunday, Nov. 19. The show will feature Clute's brand of classic ...
ST. LOUIS — During Black History Month, 5 on Your Side is celebrating the history that was made in St. Louis, and highlighting the next generation of change-makers. One of the most influential ...
"Ragtime" Rick Grafing jokes with members of the crowd assembled to hear him perform Thursday afternoon at the Perrysburg Area Senior Center. In between playing old hits on the piano, Mr. Grafing told ...
Strolling up Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland, one can’t help but hear the sounds of ragtime music drifting from the Refreshment Corner where there sits a pianist tinkling the ivories on one of the ...
A SONIC revolution started 100 years ago, ignited by a joyous, herky-jerky, syncopated beat. Everywhere, it seemed, people could not get enough of this new music. They wrote songs about it, danced to ...
Friday is the anniversary of Scott Joplin’s death in 1917. The story of this Black master of the ragtime genre can seem like one that never got far beyond the starting gate and ended with a sad ...