The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a ... On October 1, 1941, a group of musicians recorded "King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)." Jazz pianist and band leader Count Basie wrote the music ...

Gladys Bentley, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, began her blues career singing at rent parties (held ... American History and Culture Letter to Paul Kalmanovitz from the Musicians' Protective ...

It's been a century since the artistic experimentation of the Harlem Renaissance gave birth to jazz, the music art form, in the roaring 1920s and 1930s. Without a doubt it was "one of the queerest ...

In 1926, poet, playwright and activist Langston Hughes published a piece in The Nation that is considered the manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance, writing: “The younger Negro artists who create ...

Over four decades, U.S. folk and blues veteran Taj Mahal has translated ... "My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance," says Mahal, speaking from Berkeley, California.

The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a ... On October 1, 1941, a group of musicians recorded "King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)." Jazz pianist and band leader Count Basie wrote the music ...