African-American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor Lionel Hampton, Jazz musician Ziggy Elman and a Jazz orchestra playing instruments and singing, 1945.

Dizzy was black. And Longo was white. It made no difference to either one of them. Both saw their existence as a means of expressing what Longo simply called "the music." Their shared religious ...

Jazz, a genre born from the African-American experience, was once considered exclusively for Black artists. However, a group of talented White musicians dared to challenge this notion.

Jazz is the only true American art form. Jazz grew out of the great mix in and around New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th Century. Most of these early, often nameless, musicians were Black.

Richard M. Sudhalter, a jazz musician, critic and biographer whose history of white jazz musicians prompted gales of protest when it was published in 1999, died Sept. 19 at New York-Presbyterian ...

Who would have imagined that the sweeping jazz resurgence of the ’80s and ’90s-driven by gifted young artists, aggressive record labels and ever-proliferating jazz clubs-eventually migh… ...

In the account, Schory says that Ray Lawrence, a White promoter who died in 2017, introduced him to Russell in 1971 and encouraged him to support a new company, Black Jazz Ltd.

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 15 "Angel Of Love," from Mike & Dorothy Longo's The Rhythm of Unity: A Jazz Musician's Lifelong Journey Beyond Black and White (Redwood Publishing, 2023). It ...