F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong lauched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the 'Roaring Twenties' - including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas, and musicals.