The Waterbury Symphony Orchestra (WSO) will present “The Jazz Age,” the second of its new Edmond Town Hall Series, on Sunday, February 23, at 4 pm, at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street. The ...

In 1925 the Jazz Age was in full swing. It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom of the Opera opened at movie theaters. The Ku Klux Klan marched ...

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 ...