Jazz may be the first thing that comes to mind when we think of the contributions African-Americans have made to music. But the Gateways Musical Festival highlights African-Americans' classical past.

African-American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor Lionel Hampton, Jazz musician Ziggy Elman and a Jazz orchestra playing instruments and singing, 1945.

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

Modern music genres like pop, rock, rap and R&B all have roots in jazz music. "Well, if you can play jazz, you can play anything," said Carr. "To be a great jazz player, you got to study the horn ...

When Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland released its much-anticipated 10-year anniversary CD last month, local jazz aficionados were outraged that no African American musicians were included. The ...

In the 1950s and early 60s, as many African nations shook off their colonial mantles, African-Americans rallied behind their own civil-rights and black-nationalist movements. Jazz came to serve as ...

The city’s cafés and nightclubs pulsated with jazz rhythms. Musicians like Sidney Bechet, ... The influence of African American artists in Paris during the Jazz Age extended beyond their careers.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — News 4 visited the Colored Musicians Club and Jazz Museum on Wednesday to learn more about the evolution of African American music throughout the world, but especially in ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – DJ and radio host Montez Martin goes to Monsters Music and Movies to learn more about the artists he listens to and plays for his listeners. He said one of the bigge… ...

Jazz may be the first thing that comes to mind when we think of the contributions African-Americans have made to music. But the Gateways Musical Festival highlights African-Americans' classical past.