Stage lights glisten off the shiny bells of the cornet and trombone as the band strikes up a strutting tune. The dance floor begins to fill with ladies in fringed dresses, many carrying fancy ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Piano master Ed Clute will lead his Dixieland sextet in a concert for the Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse this Sunday, Nov. 19. The show will feature Clute's brand of classic ...

Dr. Donald B. Lurie, a retired maxillofacial surgeon who was a devotee of Dixieland and ragtime music, died Sunday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Stella Maris Hospice. The Shrewsbury, Pa.

Back in 1984, Phil Bickel and a Consumers Power co-worker unexpectedly discovered a mutual interest in Dixieland jazz. "We made a list of employee musicians we knew for a band," Bickel said. "Except a ...

I met Handy. I spent a whole day with him. He called me the white boy with the colored fingers. That was a big compliment When the Grateful Dead sang a hundred verses in ragtime to "Ramble On Rose, it ...

Put together musicians performing on the piano, trombone, clarinet, and washboard – yes, a washboard – and you have the French-based Paris Washboard band playing Dixieland Jazz. The group will be ...

A Mimi Blais show is not merely a piano concert. It’s an entire production. “I’m a very visual person, and I like to combine art,” says Blais, a ragtime pianist who brings in comedy, costumes and even ...

With ebullient Dixieland/ragtime jazz as accompaniment, Pinkwater, children's book author and radio personality, gleefully performs Brown's 14 hip and funny story-poems. An on-air rave about this book ...

MUSKEGON — A real toe tapper is in store when the West Michigan Concert WINDS welcome special guest Dixie Du Jour to its 33rd season-opening concert, “WINDS and Dixie,” on Saturday. The show will ...