For Samara Joy, music runs in her blood. Her paternal grandparents founded The Savettes, a gospel group originating in Philadelphia. Her father was a famous bassist who toured with famed gospel artist ...

At 21, Alan Lomax went to Haiti and recorded its citizens making music - songs about Voodoo, carnival politics, children's games and the first airplanes crisscrossing its Caribbean skies in the late ...

British bandleader Alex Mendham, who is launching an Art Deco Dance Series in San Francisco this month, has long been interested in recordings of 1930s Jazz Age radio broadcasts of bands playing the ...