Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

Jazz lovers, rejoice! The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is back bringing a stellar line-up. This week’ reveal ...

This world-class collaboration, featuring a full orchestra, horns, percussion, and an array of special guest vocalists, will ...

Phinda returns to the music scene after ten years, unveiling her new EP '10 Years - A Decade', a heartfelt collection ...

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 ...

Jazz grew out of African American culture as it developed in the southern United States during the nineteenth Century. It became intertwined with many other musical traditions, including Hispanic and ...

Despite the more troubling aspects of minstrelsy, it was another place where European and African traditions met and mingled in a heady, racist, and decidedly American stew. It is also the place where ...

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

"Be ready to be immersed in the rich cultural legacy of Five Points as not only an epicenter for jazz music, but an epicenter ...

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev famously banged his shoe at the United Nations, which had welcomed 16 new African states to its ranks. Meanwhile, a host of American jazz greats were serving as cul ...