The Montreux Jazz Festival Franschhoek is set to make history as the first-ever Montreux Jazz Festival on African soil, ...

Roughly a month ago, Jazz at Lincoln Center launched its 2025-26 season with a new work by a major American composer and musician conceived in the agreed-upon general style of African music. This past ...

In the Church of San Potito, at via Salvatore Tommasi 1, the magic of the big screen and the evocative power of jazz come ...

A new exhibit is on display at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in uptown Charlotte. It ...

The rush to redraw America's congressional maps has put a historically Black neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, ...

Jack DeJohnette, the visionary drummer whose piano stylings became a force later in his career, died on October 26 in Kingston, N.Y.

TRANSCRIPTS: I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Toni Morrison, one of America’s greatest novelists, often turned to jazz as both subject and structure. Her novel "Jazz" ...

The African American Legacy Project is hoping to create the Art Tatum Historic Business District and unify and revitalize the neighborhood where Tatum grew up.

The Virginia Arts Festival’s two recent offerings, the Soweto Gospel Choir, back in Norfolk for a third time, and the ...

Ann Arbor native Willis Patterson became the first Black professor at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and ...

Legendary producer Eddie Kramer tells UCR during a November 2025 interview how Jimi Hendrix evolved with Axis: Bold as Love.