Richard Webb

James Reese Europe (1881-1919) was an influential New York bandleader and composer during the first two decades of the 20th century. He first came to prominence as one of the founders of The Clef Club...

Handy’s THE MEMPHIS BLUES was published in 1912, and was based on a campaign song called MR. CRUMP, which the composer claimed to have written for a mayoral candidate in Memphis, Tennessee. It has bee...

THE CASTLE WALK was commissioned by the famous husband-and-wife dance team Irene and Vernon Castle, who appeared on Broadway and in silent films in the early 20th century. CASTLE WALK was first record...

Cajuns are the descendants of Catholic French Canadians whom the British Empire expelled from the captured French territory of Acadia (modern-day Nova Scotia and its surrounding areas) in the 18th cen...

James Reese Europe (1881-1919) was an influential New York bandleader and composer during the first two decades of the 20th century. He first came to prominence as one of the founders of The Clef Club...

Ferdinand Joseph LeMonthe (c. 1890-1941), better known by his pen name Jelly Roll Morton, was a New Orleans-born ragtime pianist, composer, and band leader. One of the first musicians to play the New...

THE CASTLE WALK was commissioned by the famous husband-and-wife dance team Irene and Vernon Castle, who appeared on Broadway and in silent films in the early 20th century. CASTLE WALK was first record...

Cajuns are the descendants of Catholic French Canadians whom the British Empire expelled from the captured French territory of Acadia (modern-day Nova Scotia and its surrounding areas) in the 18th cen...