Harry Pace: Founder of Black Swan, The First Black Record Company
Harry Herbert Pace was the founder of the first black record company, Pace Phonograph Corporation which sold recordings under the Black...
Newport Jazz Festival: How it Began
The wheels had been set in motion just six months earlier, on a wintry evening in 1953. I was tending to my usual business in Storyville...
Bessie Smith "Empress of the Blues"
The United States of The Blues Classical Blues period 1920s, Bessie earned as much as $2000.00 per week. Smith was a rough, crude,...
Amiri Baraka "Jazz and the White Critic"
Most jazz critics have been white Americans, but most important jazz musicians have not been. This might seem a simple enough reality to...
