Decades before Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball, these Black musicians were fighting discrimination and ...

No jazz artist has been as polarizing as Albert Ayler ... The label's distinctive orange lettering over black and white period images of the featured artists has made its albums instantly recognisable ...

He was a rarity: a Black man singing jazz, a field in which women had long dominated, alongside white singers like Frank ... he played with a string of jazz artists before breaking out on his ...

Director Charles Newell’s production is a thrillingly staged piece of theater, uncannily appropriate to the moment.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival closed ... correctly — that the festival is for “real music fans.” The sisters all wore matching black tees reading “I Quit” in red, the title ...

A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that ...

He began playing classical piano at the age of two before switching to jazz in middle school. While growing up in Philadelphia, a city with a rich jazz and musical tradition, he was fortunate to learn ...

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James Brown's message of Black pride and hope resonated with the Black Power movement. Learn about his legacy and the current ...

Lil Wayne and the Roots played to a huge crowd in his hometown at the 2025 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival ...

Alice Randall discussed Fisk University and Black women's important role in the foundational roots, profession of country music.