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 ...

Five accomplished jazz musicians and band leaders from St. Tammany Parish and New Orleans all come together for the first ...

The Museum of Contemporary Art | Connecticut and the Westport Public Art Collections will present Art, Jazz + the Blues, an ...

"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American Studies." "At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated ...

In November 2024, I went to see the jazz pianist Jason Moran perform at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Playing the music of Duke Ellington, this visionary artist of the hip-hop generation ...

The achievement ranked the ensemble as the nation's top jazz band from a historically Black college or university and the top ...

A marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity -- Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop -- Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus -- Straight ahead : Abbey ...

I’M JENNIFER BAILEYS, OUR FRIENDS WITH DESTINATION SMOOTH JAZZ ARE HERE TO TELL US ABOUT THE EVENT. FIRST, INTRODUCE YOURSELVES AND LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS AMAZING EVENT. I’M MARK BURTON, EXECUTIVE ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The 13th annual Eastside Kings Festival is set for this weekend. More than 20 bands and artists will play across five venues in historic east Austin on Saturday and Sunday. Eastside ...

Mezzrow is the name of a jazz club in Greenwich Village that I frequent when I am in New York City. The club was named after a clarinet player, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, one of the more fascinating ...