When you think of Kansas City and New Orleans, what comes to mind? For many, it's the music—the jazz, the rhythm, and the deep-rooted history.

After winning a competition, public sculptor Cork Marcheschi creates the Art Tatum Celebration Column in Toledo, Ohio, in honor of that city's jazz genius Art Tatum, a beautifully-illuminated 30 foot ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the ... St. Louis, and Kansas City, where local styles evolve. Ironically, the first jazz recording is made that same year by ...