It took a year of planning, but IU’s inaugural “JazzGirls Day” will happen on Saturday, hosting more than 20 girls from ...

Banyan Tree’s World Jazz Festival is back for its 5th Edition, this time visiting 5 cities in India, bringing in a fusion of ...

Makhathini will share the stage with fellow globetrotting Nathi Maphumulo, popularly known as DJ Black Coffee. Together, they ...

RACELAND While many high school and college students grasp for the answer as to what they will do with their lives, Melyssa Brookshire had no doubts. “I was a good student in high school but never had ...

Students playing the baritone saxophone with the Clark College jazz band at the Clark College 57th annual Jazz Festival in 2019. Members of the jazz band were supposed to leave for Cuba on March ...

And, of course, there was a bonanza of female jazz singers who were thriving during this time (many of them refugees from the big band age), including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae ...

One notable aspect of 'Mo' Better Blues' is how it navigates the interactions between Bleek and the two significant women in his life, Clarke (Cynda Williams) and Indigo (Joie Lee). Unlike some of Lee ...

March 31, 2025 • Through her music, Elida Almeida carries the heart — and irresistible rhythms — of Cabo Verde to the world.

Duke Ellington leads his jazz band, circa 1945.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation ...

Alice Randall discussed Fisk University and Black women's important role in the foundational roots, profession of country ...

The four-time Tony Award winning stage version stays true to the madcap humor of iconic writer-director Billy Wilder's ...