Hot Jazz

It was an era of ballyhoo and bee's knees. Of hooch and high stepping. And, in a country tired of WWI, a time for breakout new music – jazz – to fuel the fires. Jazz giants shaped the sound. Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, Roy Eldridge, Kenny Clarke, Billy Eckstine, Erroll Garner, Art Blakey, Billy Strayhorn and more made Pittsburgh in the 1920s and 30s one of the most prolific times and places in American music.