Jazz 1920s vintage photos

Swing into style with Jazz Age glam! Our blog jazzes up your wardrobe with roaring '20s flair, blending vintage chic with modern twists.

Rasputin Morton Roberts (1927-1964) was a serious painter, a child prodigy who graduated from the fine arts program at Yale University and launched a career as an illustrator for magazines such as Collier's, Redbook and McCall's in the 1950s and early 60s. A frenzied peasant dance becomes an abstract design He was one of a small group of gifted illustrators selected to illustrate historical series for Life magazine. While still a young man, he won respect for this series on Russian history…

New Orleans musicians

St. Louis Cotton Club Band by Missouri History Museum via Flickr

We see a band with some well-known instruments like drums and trombone. They make music that is called Jazz. It became very popular around the 1920s. The men wear neat suits. In the 1920s there were a lot of clubs, lounges and theaters in Chicago which played Jazz music, it was the new trend. It is believed that Jazz made its way through Chicago from New Orleans in 1915. Jazz is a mix of African and European musical traditions that started in the United States by african migrants form the…

BBVD horns!! Man can they swing!

During its brief and rocky tenure from 1918 to 1924, pianist Gertrude Harvey Wright was one of four women in Seattle’s first black musicians’ union, the American Federation of Musicians’ Local 458. Wright, Virginia Hughes, a “Mrs. Austin,” and (Edythe) “Turnham,” all worked with their male counterparts at union headquarters and on the bandstand. After the demise of short-lived Local 458, they next joined and helped run Seattle’s follow-up segregated union, Local 493. This institution…

Authentic Roaring 20s Jazz Age 1920s piano music that actually plays full-length songs when touch...

A new book on decorator and hostess Elsie de Wolfe celebrates her elaborate fêtes before the start of World War II

Gloria Swanson - simple but so incredibly effective

Within this post you will find some of Robert Doisneau's best photographic work, from his most iconic to those that aren't, and everything in between.

After Hours Jazz Session, Monterey Jazz Fest, Cannery Row, Fred Lyon, 1958

Theatre 1920s

Babeyond dress