Mathis told UATL the close-knit dance party, which generally attracts a predominately Black crowd and plays soulful 1970s slow jams, was exactly what she was looking for when she discovered the ...

Gene DiNino bought the place in 1982 and dubbed it Oliver's, a funky new spot for the dance crowd. Frank Malfitano said Oliver's was the site of the first indoor iteration of Syracuse Jazz Fest.

By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...

Enough to go 8x on a Kickstarter goal. Slow Dance, a picture frame ringed with strobe lights, generates the surreal effect of turning small, everyday objects into languid kinetic sculptures.