Born Lilli Mae Jones in Flint, Michigan, Betty Carter is widely acknowledged as not only one of the best female jazz singers of all time, but as one of the music’s greatest ever scat singers and ...

Historically speaking, women instrumentalists were underrepresented in jazz music, but that trend is thankfully changing. On ...

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 ...

ROGERS PARK — A Chicago jazz singer is uplifting female songwriters and composers during a series of performances in Rogers Park for Women’s History Month. Christy Bennett and her band Fumée are ...

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 ...

The women-led East End Jazz will celebrate women’s history month with a concert Friday night at the Jamesport Meeting House.

Another day, another veteran rocker mourning the “death” of rock-this time it's Twisted Sister's Jay Jay French sounding the ...

Female drummers have been around since ... but her greatest work was with the short-lived group Spectrum Road, a band dedicated to honoring jazz-rock pioneer Tony Williams. Joined by one of ...