It’s been a century since The Great Gatsby was first published, shining a light on extravagant New York lifestyles in an era that went down in history as the ‘Roaring Twenties’. It was the ...

In 1925 the Jazz Age was in full swing. It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom of the Opera opened at movie theaters. The Ku Klux Klan marched ...

Once upon a time Broadway was just another street. In Gangsters & Gold Diggers, Jerome Charyn transports readers back to a swaggering, golden era in American life—the Roaring Twenties—when ...

It’s late morning in Harlem and the jazz brunch at Minton’s Playhouse is in full swing. Cocktails are flying out across the polished mirrored bar, as up on stage a spotlit singer croons over ...

Jazz begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a ...