The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

In 1925 the Jazz Age was in full swing. It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom of the Opera opened at movie theaters. The Ku Klux Klan marched ...

There are over 100 pieces of music in Prohibition – from nineteenth century hymns to the Tin Pan Alley songs of Irving Berlin to Jazz greats from Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington ...

politics and diplomacy behind jazz - from its roots in New Orleans and early pioneers like Buddy Bolden through to the songs of protest written and performed by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and ...

presented to Duke Ellington National Museum of American History Duke Ellington Orchestra Bandstand Case National Museum of African American History and Culture Transit pass for St. Louis Public ...