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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

So, the reason why African American art, Black art, is so powerful and so transformative is because when artists have access to all of these materials across genres-whether it’s music, like we ...

How a First-of-Its-Kind Exhibition About African American Artists in the Nordic Countries Came to Be African American Studies professor Ethelene Whitmire and Leslie Anderson, chief curator of ...