Casablanca will emulate the music-filled streets of New Orleans this weekend for CasaNola, a dreamy and soulful jazz festival ...

Samara Joy is set to receive the Ella Fitzgerald Award at the 2025 Montreal Jazz Festival on June 28 at Maison symphonique, ...

“The performance will be a tribute to South African jazz music, its icons and the music ... a student band that toured the US and recorded the album We Have Waited Too Long.

Rhiannon Giddens is the the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer who played banjo and viola on Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” ...

Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has been posthumously inducted into the 2025 Grammy Hall of Fame for his politically ...

Given the trumpeter’s track record — with scores for dozens of film and television productions, groundbreaking operas, and a ...

On June 14, master percussionist Chief Baba Neil Clarke pays homage to his longtime friend and bandleader pianist NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston, at Sista’s Place ( 456 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn). Two ...

Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is one of the most iconic albums in modal jazz ... and the penny whistle, Cape jazz blends elements of swing, bebop, and African folk music. The genre captures ...

Alune Wade’s performance was one of the standout moments of the 2025 Saint-Louis Jazz Festival. The renowned Senegalese ...

Protest music is on the rise as it should be. We Insist! Max Roach’s "Freedom Now Suite" (1960), an important collaboration ...

From rare Ernest Cole prints to iconic portraits of Makeba and Masekela, this show captures the musicians and the energy of ...

Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel, Alejandro Escovedo, Shadowgrass, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, and LADAMA Headline the 32nd Black Swamp ...