At the time the area was a thriving African American community ... Shane Wheeler is a noted jazz musician here in North Carolina and recently had the chance to play his saxophone inside the ...

The result of this amazing group is a powerful energy that mixes Yemenite, West African & Jazz influences and what Ravid likes to call "New Age Culture Music". The mambo and North African rhythms ...

Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century black music innovations ... After 1808, blacks in North America began remembering--as well as forgetting--African musical traditions, ...

The Jazz Roots in Five Points returns this Saturday and next Saturday as part of Black History Month celebrations.

Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass band, and blues styles. The improvisational music that results has a syncopated rhythm ...