Jazz's popularity grows, and as it attracts a wider audience, so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz ...

He was not a rapper, but he was one of those who laid the groundwork that took spoken word and jazz ... and the Devil," but they are all the pieces of a man, as Scott-Heron's titled his breakthrough ...

In 1919, a jazz-loving killer known as the "Axeman" terrorized New Orleans — but a century later, one local historian ...

When Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh found her three months ... “As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with him. You got to sing for the Devil or go to Church and not talk back.

Forget East Egg – this was jazz in Easky and Dunmore East ... viewed it with antipathy. “The music was reviled as the devil's music,” Kevin says. Yet it was a thrill to younger people ...

“The devil takes care of his own ... Horses & Trees and Middle Passage that merged jazz and world music. But local farmers in Tuscany falsely accused Baker of peddling drugs, and he got ...

I don't think they ever thought of it as the Devil dwelling in music. Now the Devil's Interval has a natural home in many genres, particularly film music, jazz and blues, where, says Mr Pryer, it is ...

Sex, vampires, jazz. For the moralists of 1930s white America, these were the three horsemen of the apocalypse, unruly forces that threatened civilisation. Jazz they called “the devil’s music ...

Recorded live at a New York club, this big-band album features vivid performances of Evans’s brilliant, bluesy charts.