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 ...

The Prima Music Foundation's returns to Ventfort Hall with their popular jazz concert on Thursday, July 31 at 5:30 pm. This ...

Born from the spirituals, work songs, and deep sorrow of African American life in the South, the blues gave jazz its backbone ...

Brand was one of a new generation of South African jazz musicians who came to maturity in the 1940s and 1950s, and would eventually rival the American stars they looked up to. These included Kipper ...

Blending classical music, jazz, spirituals and opera, the multimedia event will celebrate renowned musicians, singers and composers from the African American community, educating the audience ...

Artists Dave Fox (piano), Neill Clegg (saxophone, clarinet and flute) and Matt Kendrick (double bass) will be joined by guest ...

WASHINGTON — Daddy Lumba, the Ghanaian highlife singer frequently ranked as the West African nation's greatest musical artist, died Saturday, after suffering a "short illness", according to the artist ...

Mark Your Calendar: Black History Month, Exhibits, Jazz and More at the National Museum of American History. This February at the museum, we’re celebrating a new season of the podcast ...

Music: Curate a playlist with classic Motown Christmas tunes, jazz renditions by Ella Fitzgerald or Louis Armstrong, ... a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s when African American art, ...