Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz, saying it sounds better ... the venues that serve alcohol and hire black musicians. These speakeasies allow whites ...

Happy listening and please support the artists you hear. See them live ... She played on many of the first jazz recordings ever made and she wrote many of the early songs of the jazz era. Though she ...

T here’s only one singer in the world who has their jazz scat solos sung back at them note-for-note by arenas filled with adoring fans. That would be Laufey, a Gen Z artist who transcends genre and ...

That would be Laufey, a Gen Z artist who transcends genre and ... learned to play classical piano and cello at an early age, she veered toward jazz standards as a teenager.