Episode 1. Jazz is born in New Orleans at the turn of the century emerging from several forms of music including ragtime, marching bands, work songs, spirituals, creole music, funeral parade music and above all, the blues. Musicians profiled here who advanced early jazz are Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Freddie Keppard, and musicians of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Episode 2. From 1917 through 1924, the "Jazz Age" begins with...

Linger Awhile is the second studio album by American jazz singer Samara Joy, released on September 16, 2022, through Verve Records. It was produced by Matt Pierson. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album and was responsible for Joy also winning Best New Artist at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards.

With the follow-up to her bestselling album Chamber Music Society in 2012, the Grammy Award-winning jazz artist Esperanza Spalding releases her most diverse, ambitious, and masterful recital yet.

A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.

A recording of selections from an April 6, 1994 concert at Carnegie Hall, with numbers selected to represent the 50 year spectrum of jazz works on the Verve Records label.