"I primarily pick according to the script," he says and discusses playing jazz legend Keith Jarrett in the new film, world ...

VCU's Jazz Faculty Septet paid tribute to legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes with a performance on Thursday evening.

Four-times Billboard Magazine musician of the year Vijay Iyer, Mercury Prize nominee Nubya Garcia, and celebrated Finnish ...

In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post-civil war reconstruction and early jazz. The term “brassroots democracy” ...

The Oregon Black Pioneers is the state’s only historical society dedicated to preserving and presenting the experiences of ...

ferreting out unreleased recordings from jazz giants of the past and releasing them with buffed-up sound quality and first-rate packaging. Long lost recordings from pianists Bill Evans, Thelonious ...

earning his M.F.A in Jazz Performance from Cal Arts in 2000, and completing studies at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute in 2001. There he studied with jazz masters such as Barry Harris, ...

And if you ever have the chance to listen to a classic jazz improvisation over and over again — Coleman Hawkins' Body and Soul, or Thelonious Monk's Straight, No Chaser, for example — you will ...

Congress passes the first Fugi­tive Slave Law. The law made it easier for a slave owner to re-take control of a slave who had ...

In celebration of Black History Month, Hamptons Doc Fest and the Southampton Arts Center are co-presenting a program on ...

Everyday the 14th!” or so claims Cupid Valentino, AKA André 3000, on one of the sexiest Outkast tracks out there. Saint Valentine’s Day falls on a Friday this year, an excellent excuse for Portland ...

Rhythm. Color. Movement. Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds, rhythms, and colors of jazz inspired prominent visual artists of the 20th century. In depicting African American culture, Romare ...