Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the ...

Oral historian Veronica Johnson discusses the Detroit Women in Jazz Oral History Project. Oral historian Veronica Johnson has partnered with the Detroit Sound Conservancy to create the Detroit Women ...

The History of jazz drums is more than a series—it’s a timeless archive that bridges the gap between jazz’s past and future. Although initially broadcast as an 8-part series, the content has since ...

MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) — Black Hawk College marked Black History Month Wednesday with a celebration of jazz and its role in documenting the Black experience in America. “There’s so much about the Black ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, ...

There's a reason historians keep circling back to jazz. Not because it's the most commercially dominant genre today - honestly, it isn't - but because few forces in American history moved through so ...

Jazz Studies is an integral part of the music department at the University of Wyoming. The program is anchored on a strong curriculum of academic jazz courses, in addition to providing many ...

Google “Ralph Guzzi,” and it isn’t until page four that any summary of the lifelong trumpeter’s accomplishments appears.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The ninth annual Juneteenth celebration kicked off Thursday at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where organizers say art tells a story. It takes a deeper look at Kansas ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Carmel Jazz Fest starts today. It highlights ...