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The Nazis denounced jazz music as "degenerate art," despite its widespread popularity in Germany. As the Nazis clamped down ...

Jazz flowed freely through the nightclubs of Weimar Germany. It's what people danced to, drank to, and partied to. But it wasn't, exactly, what we'd call jazz today, or even jazz as we understand it ...

Though Adorno had many points of criticism regarding the technical aspects of jazz, his contempt for the music genre was fueled by something else. Given the fact that Adorno was best known for his ...

The German jazz guitarist Coco Schumann (born Heinz Jakob Schumann) died January 29 at the age of 93. He remained active musically until near the end of his life and therefore ranks as a jazz musician ...

In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and much of Europe, including Germany. Classical composers even began to meld jazz styles into their music. (SOUNDBITE OF WOLFGANG ...