American Songwriter

3 Prohibition Era Jazz Artists to Know

There was a 13-year window in the United States around the turn of the 20th century during which alcohol was made illegal. That time period, known as prohibition, lasted from 1920 to 1933. The era, of ...
Untapped Cities

Stroll Through Billie Holiday’s Harlem and Uncover Remnants of the Jazz Age

The Jazz Age in Central Harlem took place alongside the flowering of visual arts, poetry, and prose sparked by the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. Some name this era one of the most ...
Orlando Weekly

Orlando’s Renaissance Theatre Co. presents their immersive, experiential take on a Harlem jazz club of the 1920s

"Lenox Avenue" is a fictitious Harlem Renaissance-era speakeasy Credit: photo courtesy Renaissance Theatre Co. We’ve all had to bid premature farewells to far too many friends over the past few years, ...
Jazz

Jazz Museum in Harlem Celebrates Women in Jazz

Nobuko Cobi Narita, guest of Harlem Speaks on Thursday, April 13, 2006, has been a steadfast volunteer in the NY jazz community since 1969. Married to Paul Ash, her partner of 32 years, at 80 she ...
The New York Times

Eight Works to Take in After or Alongside Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz’

The author consumed countless archival articles, essays, poems and even Sunday school programs to get a feel for the Harlem Renaissance. Here is some reading to help you do the same. By Adam Bradley ...