The uptown Charlotte museum also features black-and-white images of such stars as Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Billie ...

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Jack DeJohnette, one of the most daring and dynamic jazz drummers of the last 60 years, with a loose-limbed yet exacting beat ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The 13th annual Eastside Kings Festival is set for this weekend. More than 20 bands and artists will play across five venues in historic east Austin on Saturday and Sunday. Eastside ...

American music, at its core, is inseparable from a history defined by reinvention, resilience, and Black artists.

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

By Mamby Diomandé, Founder and General Commissioner of SIMA, and Lionel Talon, Cultural Entrepreneur, Founder of the WeLovEya Festival and the EYA Community Center (Benin) African music is gaining ...

TRANSCRIPTS: I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Toni Morrison, one of America’s greatest novelists, often turned to ...

The fusion of jazz, baroque piano, vocals and traditional Central African and Middle Eastern rhythms might sound like an ambitious overreach, with too many influences competing for space. Yet Afro ...

Jersey students were able to enjoy live African music as musicians shared their culture and heritage with them. Otto and the Mutapa Calling visited Mont a l'Abbe School on Friday to perform for the ...