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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

she directed the Duke Jazz Ensemble and taught courses on jazz history and its roots in African American culture, becoming “one of the focal points for Black students and culture on campus.” ...