By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of ... who sometimes gathered in Congo Square to dance and play music from their homelands. Many were exposed ...

The 25-year-old was already a winner heading into Sunday night’s main ceremony after winning best pop solo performance at the ...