Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying ...

Three stocky men, looking more like merchants than musicians, line up on the little bandstand in front of a three-man rhythm section. Unsmilingly, almost diffidently, they raise clarinet, trumpet and ...

The sound that would come to be called “Dixieland” developed from the jazz music of early 20th-century New Orleans, epitomized by figures like Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. But it didn’t get ...

Above, Doug Smith’s Dixieland All-Stars, who will perform in Dalton. DALTON- Cue the trumpet, clarinet, tenor sax, drums, trombone piano and bass – and the tapping feet. The next Summer Concert in the ...

Alabama football had already performed one of its traditions earlier in the fourth quarter against Tennessee. But the crowd at Bryant-Denny Stadium didn’t seem to mind at the two-minute warning when ...