Like many jazz musicians of his era, Art Tatum understood the entertainment aspects of his art.

NPR: A Jazz Genius Goofs Off

In 1956, he released his landmark album Saxophone Colossus, which is widely considered to rank among the finest jazz discs of the era.

NPR: Sonny Rollins: Elder Statesman of Jazz

Bernstein mixes well-known pop songs with a lost style of jazz that predates the big band era.

NPR: Steven Bernstein: Mixing the Strange and Familiar

It grew into a tradition centered on dance and paired with jazz bands of the popular music of the era.

CNN: A modern celebration of African-American history

Then he was given the opportunity of a lifetime: From 1959 to 1960, Claxton was commissioned to document the American jazz scene at the height of the "golden era" of the music genre.

NPR: 'Jazz Life': Images of a Golden Era of Music

Twenty years after his pioneering "Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, " Schuller turned to the swing era, a glorious period in American music, when Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington developed an idiom that was accessible yet also innovative and artistically satisfying.

WSJ: Five Best

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.

NEWYORKER: No Direction Home

The festival survived both the terrible three-year Siege of Leningrad during WWII and the restrictions of the Soviet era that ended in 1991, rebounding to include concerts, dances, fireworks, a sailing fleet, jazz performances, street parties and more.

BBC: Living in: St Petersburg