The competing bands were announced this month by Jazz at Lincoln Center ... Probably the single greatest art form created by Americans, African Americans in particular. These kids, from all ...

The most legendary jazz-funk band of all time is coming to Ann Arbor ... in the percussion department,” Clark said. “He brings Africa, Cuba, rhythms from around the world.

The Ringgold Band will commemorate Black History Month with a free concert celebrating Black artists, composers and activists ...

Discover the pioneering jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt, who influenced the music and career of Paul McCartney, from the day of The Beatles to Wings.

Don Was is one of Detroit’s creative giants. This weekend, he’ll bring the nine-member Pan-Detroit Ensemble to Ann Arbor’s Blue Llama Jazz Club ...

Johnson takes the lead on his talking drum, providing the driving beat—the bass for the band—and kicks off the album ... and sometimes piano—because jazz is also derived from the old sources of Africa ...

Issued on the 90th anniversary of Elvis’s birth on Jan. 8, Preston Lauterbach’s “Before Elvis: The African Americans Who Made ...

Headlining the event will be the highly acclaimed Orlando-based Rejuvenation Orchestra, a 16-piece powerhouse big-band that performs charts originally written by legendary jazz musician Sam Rivers ...

Marking the day of her debut EP release, the promising musician reflects on fear, growth and blooming in her own time ...

Mozambican jazz saxophonist, composer, and producer Moreira Chonguiça will be on stage on Saturday, 25 February,  for the third edition of the Bob Collymore Foundation International Jazz Festival in ...

A free concert and daylong arts celebration highlight this year’s Winter Park Arts Weekend, which runs Feb. 20-23. The ...

The late jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra still “visits” his sax player from the great beyond. Their cosmic mission ...