Bandleader for the series isVince Giordanoa friend of the Jazz Age 1920s This website is dedicated to the Jazz Age music of the 1920s and to the artists who performed the music. These Jazz Age pages feature accurate, original- research bios of some of the lesser known personalities of th...
Noun1.Jazz Age- the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism historic period,age- an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age" ...
The article provides information on the jewelry trade during the 1920s, otherwise known as the jazz age, in the U.S. Flappers, glammed up in bobbed hair, pearls and short skirts, rebelled against traditional values. Amid strong consumerism, platinum was the jewelry metal of choice. In ...
Charleston, social jazz dance highly popular in the 1920s and frequently revived. Characterized by its toes-in, heels-out twisting steps, it was performed as a solo, with a partner, or in a group. Mentioned as early as 1903, it was originally a black fol
A new edition is coming to New York. Enjoy the jazz music of the 1920's at these open-air concerts. Welcome to one of the most memorable events of the year!
“By age 14, I was going to Birdland, which had a peanut gallery. That’s when I heard Blakey and the Messengers, the Coltrane Quartet and Miles. They became my passion and still are. It’s the stuff that gets to you between about 12 and 25 that stays with you for life. You neve...
EVENING DRESS OF THE EARLY JAZZ AGE, 1920-1924Order now with PayPal, $30 plus postage (US addresses only).Postal rates are calculated automatically by PayPal; postal overages will be refunded if necessary. For international, large, or wholesale, orders, ...
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A versatile musician and arranger who still active at age 90, Bruce has one of the longest, most diverse music careers I’ve encountered. Started inVaudeville inthe 1930s playing jazz modeled on Stuff Smith. In the late 1940s he worked inWestern Swingwith Leon McAuliffe, Bob Wills, and hi...
Generally, when people think about the dances of the Jazz Age (the 1920s & 30s), they bring to mind exuberant youth dances like the Charleston or Lindy Hop, or the theatrical dances of Fred and Ginger. What Fred & Ginger did was theater and spectacle, and was never intended to be an...