Jan 2nd, 2009 · A cornetist and jazz scholar, Sudhalter remembers overlooked cornetist Bix Beiderbecke with Marian McPartland. Beiderbecke had a short career in the 1920s, but he influenced a wide spectrum of artists, from Hoagy Carmichael to Miles Davis. McPartland plays Beiderbecke's most famous piano composition, "In a Mist," before getting together with Sudhalter on "Davenport Blues."
Oct 16th, 2008 · Some compare our decade's reliance on easy credit to the 1920s and say history is repeating itself. Others say this time is different. And still others claim that those may be the most dangerous words of all.
Nov 21st, 2007 · The oldest traditional New Orleans jazz musician has died at age 100. Doc Paulin was a trumpeter and band leader who started performing the 1920s.
Sep 19th, 2007 · Kansas City these days seems like a bastion of wholesome, Middle-American values. But from the 1920s to the 1960s, the city was a haven for gamblers, bootleggers and a corrupt political machine.
Jul 30th, 2007 · Artist Edward Hopper is best known for provocative, shadowy oil paintings of people in urban settings -- diners, offices and bedrooms. But the work that put Hopper on the map is a watercolor of an elegant, light-drenched house in Gloucester, Mass. Houses inspired his work during the summers he spent in the seaside city in the 1920s.
Jul 14th, 2007 · From the 1920s to the 1950s, great songwriters like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Duke Ellington wrote standards that any cocktail lounge player today knows by heart. In his new book, novelist and critic Wilfrid Sheed celebrates the music of the great American songbook.
Jul 13th, 2007 · Gov. Jon Corzine is going offline. The New Jersey governor said this week that he's "going back to the 1920s" to "have direct conversations with people." Commentator David Shipley, the author of a recent style guide on e-mail, doesn't agree with the governor's strategy. He explains why.
Jun 3rd, 2007 · The on-air puzzle this week offers a game of "accidental acrostics." Every answer is a multiword title, in which the initial letters spell a word. For example, if the word given is "air" and you're asked to name a 1920s hit on Broadway, you would say Abby's Irish Rose.