A relatively unsung hero in Columbus music history, Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a prodigiously gifted jazz multi-instrumentalist ... and began busking on Columbus street corners playing the saxophone.

Ashby and Bill Strickland, former president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, in 2008 created the Pittsburgh Jazz Legends program, a sort of hall of fame to recognize jazz masters who stayed ...

at the intersection with President Street. “Long time ago, though.” Sixty years ago, the Black social club that once occupied that corner hosted a jazz concert that is so storied, it has a ...

French Quarter Festival in New Orleans opens on Thursday and features more than 300 musical acts on 22 stages.

They'll be dancing in the street this weekend just ... place was once a gumbo of blues, jazz, dancing and arts, and the center and heartbeat of Pensacola's Black culture and entertainment.

Fela Kuti is renowned as the innovator of Afrobeat, a creative blend of his native West African music, James Brown funk, and big horn jazz rhythms that were meant for more than just jump up dance and ...

an acclaimed jazz pianist who's a prominent artist in his own right, has taken a deep dive into the personal archives of one of the city's most acclaimed Black creatives as inspiration for three ...

The breadth of talent on display over the coming weeks is none more evident than in the number of women artists blazing ...

Sidney Story, an alderman in New Orleans, put forth an ordinance confining vice to a 16-square-block area outside the French Quarter. The area was named Storyville after him, and has been commonly—but ...

Read More: How Jazz Became the Voice of Revolution From its very beginnings, jazz has been a Black art form that is ... front of a brownstone on East 126th Street. Only one of them, the jazz ...

she acknowledges that the growing spaces for women artists is not always on the street level. “Jazz music, and music in general, has gotten more integrated into the academic world, so there ...