The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the ... religious, brass band, and blues styles. The improvisational music that results has a syncopated rhythm, and originally ...

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 ...

On Oct. 29, Jazz and Blues vocalist and WBGO Jazz Radio Curator Lezlie Harrison will discuss “The Singers’ Art,” which explores emotion, despair, sadness and joy through the natural human voice.

As my ears become ever more finely-tuned to the art of improvisation, my passion for blues and jazz, plus rock and roll, grows by leaps and bounds. And with each successive year in that evolving ...

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of ...