On February 20th, as part of the month-long Black History celebration, the Harlem School of the Arts will launch an important ...

During the Cold War, the US State Department sent jazz artists like Louis Armstrong and Dizzie Gillespie to countries in Africa on a goodwill tour. Meanwhile, the United States was also cooperating ...

Sixteen years after guitarist Coleman Mellett was killed in the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407, his family sees the release of his album “Sing You a Brand New Song" as a powerful ...

Honoring jazz legends and rebuilding for the future. A century of music, history and resilience lives on in Buffalo's iconic Jazz Museum.

Edward Kennedy Ellington was born into the world on April 29, 1899 inWashington, D.C. Duke’s parents, Daisy Kennedy Ellington and James EdwardEllington, served as ideal role models for young Duke, and ...

UW Music welcomes Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic, and John Dickson, piano, for a free, public recital of works for trombone and piano. The program will include pieces ...

Reason’s Nick Gillespie hosts relentlessly interesting interviews with the activists, artists, authors, entrepreneurs, newsmakers, and politicians who are defining the 21st century.

This song is as much about Art Blakey’s ferocious drumming as Gillespie’s horn, and you can certainly hear an energy that translates into the early high-octane Kinks hits. A full year before Marvin ...