Photo: From left, Bryce Edwards and Mike Davis will bring their new show, Hot Combination, to the Birdland Jazz Club, ...

But jazz was established here long before 1983. Early jazz pioneers played and recorded in San Antonio starting in the mid-1920s. The music always has been given a special twist here, experts said.

An episode entitled "Early Jazz," from the television anthology called The Subject is Jazz. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white, 16 mm acetate film with bilateral variable-area optical ...

Europe showed that jazz-based rhythms could structure mainstream popular music, setting the stage for the Jazz Age of the 1920s. His compositions for the Castles, such as "Castle House Rag," ...

Danny Coots and Adam Swanson became friends over a shared love of ragtime and early jazz music, that friendship coming decades after ragtime and early jazz were “new” styles of music. Coots ...