Inglewood brothers Aaron and Lawrence Shaw, the jazz duo Black Nile, step into their biggest hometown spotlight yet, joining ...

Every year when the calendar turns to February, it's a time when the country celebrates Black culture — an incredible and beautiful way of life that's ingrained in our history and has shaped who we ...

Many jazz fans break out in a sweat when they see the word “collective" in the name of a jazz group. One assumes the music is going to be avant-garde and free form to the point of incoherence. You'll ...

Declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during its General Conference 14 years ago, International Jazz Day—celebrated every April 30—honors a genre ...

There is a miracle on the corner of 12th Avenue and Jackson St. in what is now Seattle's "Little Saigon." In what was a traditional African American and Jewish community before the influx of ...

Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Not long after Black Americans found themselves freed from the shackles of slavery in the late 19th century, the work songs that echoed among the fields worked by enslaved ...

Founded in 1969, Black Jazz Records was formed as an alternative to earlier jazz, with a roster comprised solely of African American artists and a focus on political and spiritual-influenced material.

Cover of Ain’t But A Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story The following is an excerpt from Willard Jenkins’ latest book, Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story, which ...