Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Sponsored by Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile Presents Battle of the Big Bands & Swing Dance Competition George Gee Swing Orchestra and The Harlem Renaissance ...

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 ...

The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and artistic movement that thrived during the 1920s, was a remarkable period in American history. It was a time when African-American art, literature, and music ...

Take a stroll along Swing Street and visit the sites of iconic Central Harlem clubs where New York City’s Jazz Age was born! Walking in the footsteps of jazz greats like Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington ...

NEW YORK – CIRCA 1930: Blues singer and pianist Gladys Bentley poses for a portrait backstage at the Ubangi Club in Harlem circa 1930 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ...

Alfred University students with Loren Schoenberg (center), founder and director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Also in photo, English Professor Rob Reginio and History Professor Mallory ...

Tucked into a quiet corner of Upper Manhattan is one of Harlem’s last informal jazz parlors. It’s a setting you might not expect: a small living room decked with family photographs, magazine clippings ...

Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the passing of Harlem Renaissance jazz pianist and composer Thomas “Fats” Waller. So it’s understandable if today’s audiences aren’t familiar with some of ...

Many jazz fans and local New Yorkers were saddened when Harlem’s famous Lenox Lounge closed late last year, but the historical location may reopen. However, it’s complicated, reports the New York ...