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 ...

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.

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 ...