The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82.

If you want a bit of mob history, travel to Chicago and visit this legendary local bar that was once a favorite hang out of ...

The first Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ceremony took place at the newly-opened Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929.

Al Jolson and the Jazz Singer, published by Alfred A. Knopf. As he points out in this fast-moving and absorbing volume, Jolson was part of a cohort of entertainers whose roots were in Eastern ...

He sang arias on the streets of San Francisco, performed on Broadway and collaborated on a musical about Al Jolson, which he also starred in. By Richard Sandomir Stephen Mo Hanan, a vibrant ...

George Lappin ‘Geordie’ McIntyre, singer, songwriter ... family with the sounds of American country-gospel music and Al Jolson. Geordie recalled being struck by the passionate singing style.

From the early 1910s to the late 1940s, Bernstein writes, “there was nobody…bigger than Al Jolson ... Neither Jolson nor blackface disappeared after “The Jazz Singer.” ...

It was not the “Jazz Singer’’ with Al Jolson, although he was popular in the Lehigh Valley, frequently at the Allentown Fair in live performances and in Broadway try-out productions.

like George Gershwin’s recording of ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ or ‘California Here I Come’ by Al Jolson, known as one of the actors in one of the first talking pictures in film history, The Jazz Singer.

This capacious biography of the Lithuanian-born entertainer Al Jolson also traces ... Bernstein analyzes Jolson’s role in “The Jazz Singer” (1927), the first feature-length talkie, and ...

Al Jolson lived “The American Dream ... but he is probably best remembered for his film career. He starred in THE JAZZ SINGER (1927), the first talking movie ever made, and his legend ...

Jolson made his first films in the mid-20s, a series of early talking shorts. But his immortality came with "The Jazz Singer," the first commercially viable, part-talking feature. Signed with ...