Decades before Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball, these Black musicians were fighting discrimination and segregation on the bandstand.

The Rhythm of Unity: A Jazz Musician’s Lifelong Journey Beyond Black and White article by AAJ Staff, published on May 2, 2023 at All About Jazz. Find more Book Excerpts articles ...

The artist has used musical notes to lead our eyes through the black and white composition, and brilliant blues as explosive accents. The piece is simply alive with the rhythmic sounds of jazz.

Culled from a series of live dates at San Francisco's Keystone Korner in the late 1970s, A Matter of Black and White (the second released so far) finds Byard long since settled into his chameleonic ...