During the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s, this Manhattan neighborhood was bursting with visual arts, poetry, prose, and music. The exhilarating sounds of jazz seeped into the streets in ...

Jazz Age Harlem Renaissance and AI Music Lab. So, as we go light-years ahead with rolling out’s new AI Music Generator, we wanted to take you back, not just to talk about the historical ...

A bright mural of Josephine Baker, the Jazz Age entertainer and civil rights activist, now peers over Paris, the city she made her home. The mural comes from urban artist Franck Duval, known as FKDL, ...

Cab Calloway (1907-1994): Cab Calloway was a jazz and scat singer, band leader, and actor who epitomized the vitality of the Harlem Renaissance. His performances, including “Minnie the Moocher ...

The influx set the stage for the Harlem Renaissance, a rich period of Black artistry when jazz styles like Harlem stride piano and swing flourished. Bebop followed, in the 1940s, with Minton’s ...

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 ...

At age 16, young Bentley left ... Bentley helped shape the sound and aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance, ... Existing became even harder as The Jazz Age transitioned first into WWII, ...

The Harlem Renaissance had already ignited a cultural awakening in America, ... The influence of African American artists in Paris during the Jazz Age extended beyond their careers.