The International African American Museum (IAAM) is set to host "Jazz in the Garden: Featuring Charlton & Friends" on ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

By the early 1970s, WCHB’s founders realized that the station could do more for jazz by fully committing to the genre. So, in 1974, the station underwent a bold rebranding; it became WJZZ, a name that ...

Norfolk State's jazz ensemble and 11 others from Historically Black Colleges and Universities are competing to open for ...

“During its first 16 years of existence, the Apollo presented almost every notable African-American jazz band, singer, dancer and comedian of the era,” co-curator Tuliza Fleming writes in the ...

Rhythm. Color. Movement. Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds, rhythms, and colors of jazz inspired prominent visual artists of the 20th century. In depicting African American culture, Romare ...

Maybe the most influential jazz musician of the second half of the 20th century Although all the records so far have been by American musicians, and mainly African American musicians, jazz was ...

Oscar Pettiford was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, in 1922, of a Choctaw Indian mother and a half Cherokee, half African American father. He became one of the most influential bass players in the history ...

Rhythm. Color. Movement. Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds, rhythms, and colors of jazz inspired prominent visual artists of the 20th century. In depicting African American culture, Romare ...