Claire Falkenstein, in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and now Palm Springs Desert Museum, January 8 through March 9, 1980

When Major Michael Donnelly was instructing his U.S. Air Force student pilots, he used to tell them three things: Timing is everything; it's nice to be lucky; and there is no justi...

The development of jazz and swing in the African-American community in Los Angeles in the years before the second World War received a boost from the arrival of a significant numbe...