Raucous, brash and freewheeling, First Dance by The Freedom Art Quartet is rooted in the past yet fresh and contemporary. The album should sound familiar to those who have ventured outside the ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

Most Americans rightly think of jazz as an African-American art form. But Ford, the only American personally praised by in Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, saw jazz dancing as part of a conspiracy to ...

Jazz arrived in St. Louis more than a century ago, with the Mississippi River acting as a cultural highway for Black music and dance migrating from the deep South. With St. Louis an established hotbed ...

Rhythmically Speaking does jazz dance, Keane does tap. Together they will present “Jazz on Tap.” The two St. Paul-based dance groups will perform May 22 and 23 at The Shed.