The centenary of Poland’s regained independence might have already passed, but a revival of interwar culture, particularly music, is still on the up. In recent years, an increasing number of bands ...
After more than five years of reviewing what feels like thousands of different music CDs a great many of the titles I've covered have vanished into the haze of my memory. It's one of the reasons I don ...
Clarke Peters explores the sounds of Zonophone records, a pioneering label that recorded a huge amount of early African popular music. Many of these discs were made in London for export to West Africa ...
In the Greenwood neighborhood of north Seattle, audiences are transported to a 1930s nightclub in Harlem — with singing, ...
HOLYOKE - Two Western Massachusetts musicians will be featured in the Holyoke Public Library's musical event, "Boom and Bust Sing-a-Long: A Program of Vintage American Songs," on Feb. 19. Guitarist ...
This week Rhythm Planet digs up some classic reefer, tea, and viper songs... i.e. songs about marijuana in the jazz underground 1920s & 1930s.
John Heneghan of East River String Band offers a compilation of diverse and wide-ranging music from the 1920s and 30s. Save this story Save this story It seems odd to pair the 1920s and 30s together, ...
The sounds of Zonophone records and African-American jazz in 1920s Paris, through the work of Josephine Baker. Show more Clarke Peters explores the sounds of Zonophone records, a pioneering label that ...