Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PARIS — It was after midnight at Le Duc des Lombards, and the jam session was warming up. A just-assembled quartet toyed with the jazz standard “Cherokee,” ...

So it’s not a masterpiece. But, reassuringly, for the first time at least in his European travels we find Allen on safer ground. He may be in Paris, gawping at it in the jazz-accompanied opening ...

Ever since the end of the First World War, France has been a center of activity and a place of honor for American jazz musicians who were often denied both—as well as fundamental civil rights—in the ...

It was after midnight at Le Duc des Lombards, and the jam session was warming up. A just-assembled quartet toyed with the jazz standard “Cherokee,” volleying solos until the melody was barely ...