Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In the late 19th century, former slaves and the children of former slaves – robbed of centuries of ...

Jazz is rooted in the rhythm of the Mile High City – and the sound leads back to a historically African American neighborhood. There's a lot of effort that goes into keeping the essence of Denver's ...

(The Root) — When was the last time the culture produced a great black male jazz singer? To be sure, there is no shortage of contemporary black female jazz vocalists — Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson ...

It is difficult to place jazz within a philosophy of music dominated by the concepts and practices of classical music. One key puzzle concerns the nature and role, if any, of musical works in jazz. I ...

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

Watching the Queen's Cartoonists perform live is a spectacle. There are cartoons, alongside jazz, a wide range of musical instruments, noise-making props and on-stage shenanigans. The band performs ...