While the "golden age" of jazz ended, the Kansas City sound never really disappeared.
But the adventurous nonet known as Fight the Big Bull formed in an age of widespread jazz education and instant global communication.
Mies van der Rohe's early work in Berlin shouts avant-garde Europe just as the Chrysler Building in New York, which was completed in 1930, is an elegant reminder of the glitzy jazz age of the 1920s and Horace Walpole's 18th-century Thames-side villa evokes the eclectic sophistication of the countrified lifestyle that still stirs nostalgia in many a would-be squire's heart.
He was destined, he believed, to write a new poetry fit for forward-looking times: an age of streetcars, jazz and heroic engineering.
Fascinated by the '20s and '30s, she traveled at age 16 to Williams College in Massachusetts to visit the archives of jazz-age band leader Paul Whiteman.
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The walls are decorated with paintings by Ed Sorel that are meant to recall the Jazz Age of the 1930s, many featuring the eponymous primates performing various activities.
Taylor and his 2007 account of the Bright Young People, which had just been released in paperback in the U.S. with an Americanized subtitle that suggests Jazz-age parallels of youthful glamour, anomie and eventual doom.
As one of a generation of "young lions" who came of age in the 1990s, McBride crosses easily from more traditional jazz forms into the fusion sounds of Weather Report, and pop touring and recording with Sting and Diana Krall.
Take a dip of your own into the Jazz Age at L'Antiquaire et la Mode.
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U. student, and Scorsese, when he later took his place in the wider world, did so as a champion of a bygone age: his best films feature jazz, Martinis, and characters belonging to or nostalgic for the pre-rock era.
By the time he died at age 83, he was truly one of the giants of jazz.
Jazz vocalist and pianist Shirley Horn died yesterday at the age of 71.
He took up formal drum instruction at age 10 and began studying jazz two years later, citing the work of masters like Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones and Roy Haynes as early influences.
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It was a glamorous time for some Harvard students in Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age, but for Mr Pusey it was all hard grind keeping to the tough terms of his grant.
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