The Lutheran Church of Arcata invites the community to an uplifting “Dixieland Jazz Service” this Sunday for Mother’s Day. The annual jazz service features the music of a seven-piece traditional ...

When he was a boy, John White knew there was something special about Dixieland music if his parents could enjoy the sweet, upbeat tunes just as much as he did. "Being from a different generation from ...

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 sounds of Dixieland music get everyone’s toes tapping to the beat at the Church of Peace in Rock Island, Illinois. Everyone is welcome to attend the church’s ninth annual Dixieland Jazz Service on ...

Like sidewalk superintendents, jazz fans like to watch and listen to a clicking combo even if they know little about what is actually going on. The least among the initiates can watch a hot lick go ...

orn in Chicago and raised near Philadelphia, John Blegen began playing professionally at the age of 16 in a Dixieland band and in a big band composed of Drexel Tech students. He toured Europe in the ...