Take a dip of your own into the Jazz Age at L'Antiquaire et la Mode.
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He revelled in the Jazz Age, when illustrators such as Howard Pyle and N.
The walls are decorated with paintings by Ed Sorel that are meant to recall the Jazz Age of the 1930s, many featuring the eponymous primates performing various activities.
Two blocks over, downtown's hotel scene emerged from the Jazz Age in 2006 when 21c Museum Hotel debuted its forward-thinking concept, nesting 90 lodgings atop the U.S.'s first museum devoted to 21st-century art.
Mies van der Rohe's early work in Berlin shouts avant-garde Europe just as the Chrysler Building in New York, which was completed in 1930, is an elegant reminder of the glitzy jazz age of the 1920s and Horace Walpole's 18th-century Thames-side villa evokes the eclectic sophistication of the countrified lifestyle that still stirs nostalgia in many a would-be squire's heart.
Fascinated by the '20s and '30s, she traveled at age 16 to Williams College in Massachusetts to visit the archives of jazz-age band leader Paul Whiteman.
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While the "golden age" of jazz ended, the Kansas City sound never really disappeared.
In jazz-age America, the neon sign took off, and every business that wanted to prove itself modern had to invest in a neon sign to keep up with the competition.
By the time he died at age 83, he was truly one of the giants of jazz.
But the adventurous nonet known as Fight the Big Bull formed in an age of widespread jazz education and instant global communication.
U. student, and Scorsese, when he later took his place in the wider world, did so as a champion of a bygone age: his best films feature jazz, Martinis, and characters belonging to or nostalgic for the pre-rock era.
He later took classical lessons and was "discovered" at age 9 by the late New York City jazz aficionado Charles McWhorter, who saw him play at a festival in Siberia.
Jazz vocalist and pianist Shirley Horn died yesterday at the age of 71.
Taylor and his 2007 account of the Bright Young People, which had just been released in paperback in the U.S. with an Americanized subtitle that suggests Jazz-age parallels of youthful glamour, anomie and eventual doom.
As one of a generation of "young lions" who came of age in the 1990s, McBride crosses easily from more traditional jazz forms into the fusion sounds of Weather Report, and pop touring and recording with Sting and Diana Krall.
He took up formal drum instruction at age 10 and began studying jazz two years later, citing the work of masters like Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones and Roy Haynes as early influences.
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Mr. RIZZO: OK. When I started coming up as a young jazz pianist in the '50s--and I'm giving my age away here--Bill Evans was the only guy on the scene who did not play in the tradition of the prevailing trend, which was hard bob gospel weird stuff.
Continuing to develop quickly, Eldar became the youngest performer to play on NPR's Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland (at age 12), and his career hasn't lost any momentum.
"I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side, " he says.
It was a glamorous time for some Harvard students in Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age, but for Mr Pusey it was all hard grind keeping to the tough terms of his grant.
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