Nearly a dozen gifted young singers have been announced as semifinalists in the 2026 Herbie Hancock Institute International ...

Dubbed America's best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice. By Associated Press Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, ...

Cassandra Wilson, the legendary jazz vocalist, has died at 70. Her longtime manager Robert Torry confirmed that Wilson passed away on Tuesday at her Jackson, Mississippi home surrounded by family and ...

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Cassandra Wilson, who has died aged 70, was the most revered jazz singer of her generation; her dark, rich and haunting voice carried echoes of Nina Simone, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan and Betty ...

Legendary jazz singer Cassandra Wilson passed away "peacefully" at her home in Jackson, Mississippi on Tuesday.

Vocalists hold an interesting and endearing position in the jazz world. When an instrumentalist improvises or even plays a melody, they are leaving their message up for interpretation. A vocalist can ...

Sheila Jordan, the jazz vocalist who tugged at the boundaries of music whether she was scat-singing or freshly interpreting songs by Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hart, or Jimmy Webb, died on Monday. She ...

Tyreek McDole, who won the 2023 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, will be at the Blue Llama Jazz Club & Restaurant in Ann Arbor on Friday, Sept. 11.

Much of today's best Latin jazz embraces old traditions to create something new. NPR Producer Felix Contreras spotlights five female singers whose... Latina Jazz: Spanish-Speaking Vocalists Latina ...

In the long annals of the Monterey Jazz Festival, 2025 will be remembered as the year of the diva. That’s not to say that Instrumental virtuosity will be wanting at the 68th edition of the world’s ...

Wilson, whose deep, dark contralto was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz, died on Wednesday in her hometown of Jackson, Miss.