Results for "Dick McPartland"

Dick McPartland

Born: May 18, 1905

Dick Hyman and Austin High Revisited

May 27, 2022

In 1922, five white high-school teens started a jazz revolution. All attended Austin High School on Chicago's West Side and were mad about jazz—the jazz that came up to the city from New Orleans in 1920. That's when Prohibition led to bootlegging, organized crime, and speakeasies and clubs run by gangsters who needed exciting music to ...