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 ...

which began to infect the most famous dance floors and inspire the leading musicians of the age. But the development of the jazz craze in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s was slow and erratic – and never ...

Allan Johnson never experienced the gypsy jazz scene in Paris during the 1930s, but the musician is ... with tablecloths, room to dance and the ambience of a French bistro. A former general ...