Lois Long was only 29 years old when she wrote her “Doldrums” series for The New Yorker, but the chronicler of Jazz Age nightlife who once epitomized the flapper lifestyle felt much older given how much the world had changed in just a few short years. She was particularly appalled by ...
Herbie Hancock Age: 84 Herbie Hancock, born in 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, is an internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and composer whose innovative approaches to music have made him a significant figure in the evolution of modern jazz. His musical journey began with classical training as a chil...
The Jazz Age(美国的爵士乐时代)TheJazzAge •TheJazzAgedescribestheperiodaftertheendofWorldWarI,throughtheRoaringTwenties,endingwiththeGreatDepression.•在美国历史上，“爵士乐时代”是指自一战结束（1918年）至经济大萧条（1929年）的时期，也就是兴旺的二十年代（theRoaringTwenties）。TheFirstWorldWar •...
Scott Fitzgerald and declared 'open' by Louis Armstrong, the Jazz Age saw the flowering of the most prolific musical talents of this century. Arnold Shaw's lively account embraces all the major personalities from instrumentalists to composers, and from singers to lyricists. The book includes a ...
Tensions:The Jazz Age also had its darker side, with anxieties about the changing social order, the rise of organized crime, and the stark economic inequalities that would lead the country into the Great Depression. The Jazz Age wasn’t just about music, but it’s undeniable that jazz played...
What American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald described as the Jazz Age coincided with the demise of silent movies and the birth of talking pictures in the late 20s. In fact, the very first full-length motion picture with synchronized sound was 1927’s groundbreaking flickThe Jazz Singer, starring...
Whether in his golden youth or premature old age, legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker's musical virtuosity always shone through. In this frank and revealing documentary made a year before his death, interviews, recording sessions, archive footage and home movies are used by director Bruce Weber to...
costume is the final piece of the puzzle—that, and walking out onto the stage locks everything in place,” he says, going on to observe, “We set out to put on a big, vocally stunning, showstopping, no-holds-barred musical at a time when gorgeous epic musicals like Gatsby are ...
Rhapsody in Blue, musical composition by George Gershwin, known for its integration of jazz rhythms with classical music, that premiered on February 12, 1924, as part of bandleader Paul Whiteman’s “An Experiment in Modern Music” concert at New York’s