Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of African Americans in the community is what started the whole altercation.

For decades, the FBI has kept a close eye on Black musicians and other artists they saw as a threat to the status quo.

Hamilton was best known for playing Donna Harris, the fiancee of Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) on the NBC sitcom that ran from ...

POPULAR jazz singer and broadcaster, Clare Teal, will join Wirral-based jazz orchestra Out of the Blue at Heswall Hall in June. Teal will join the band as guest vocalist for one night only on Saturday ...

Charles Burrell, an American classical and jazz bass player known as being the first African American to be a member of a ...

Making Connections Between Erik Satie, Jazz, and Personal Identity article by Victor L. Schermer, published on June 11, 2025 ...

Revisiting the 1972 documentary 'Jazz Is Our Religion' by John Jeremy, which offers an unparalleled insight into jazz's history and socio-political importance.

Ennis, a much-praised though shy jazz singer who disdained the glamor ... who had that voice. As Billie Holiday once told her in a late-night phone call, “You have a great voice; you don ...

I am co-producing a concert with Toronto Jazz Festival at Koerner Hall called “On Their Shoulders”. Here’s why I had to do it ...

Craft Recordings dropped the second wave of Original Jazz Classics reissues in 2023 —an absolute must-have batch for any ...