Nightclub like no other -- Brother can you spare a dime? -- Riding the crest -- Bloody but unbowed -- Beginning again: the cookery, 1955-82 Set against the drama of the Great Depression, the conflict ...

The title of Woody Allen’s “Café Society” conjures up three famous haunts of the ’30s and ’40s: the ‘21’ Club, El Morocco and the Stork Club. Those Midtown joints were largely restricted to the rich ...

“Cafe Society Swing,” a new musical that opened in New York on December 21, has so many good parts it’s a shame they don’t fit together. The play tells the story of Barney Josephson, the son of ...

Manhattan has many a hotspot, many a white-tie joint, but few nightclubs in which a connoisseur of jazz would care to be found. Two years ago a mild-mannered little Trenton, N. J. shoe-store owner ...

This inspirational, exciting, atmospheric read takes readers to New York's West Village in the late 1930s, and the white-owned establishment that championed jazz, discovered Billie Holiday and ...

While they often worked together to write and record songs, black and white jazz musicians rarely appeared together on stage in the racially divided world of New York in the 1930s and ’40s. So it was ...