When thinking about jazz, it’s impossible to ignore the deep, soulful contributions of Black women who have shaped the genre ...

“One of the things that I’ve always found with vocalists all throughout the years, the greats, everybody from Bessie Smith to Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washingto ...

Ashby and Bill Strickland, former president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, in 2008 created the Pittsburgh Jazz ...

Jazz guitar icon George Freeman passed away on April 1 at the age of 97. The celebrated musician had planned to mark his 98th birthday on April 10 with a series of concerts at Chi ...

Today a judge has ordered the US to bring a deported Maryland man back from an El Salvador prison, plus the latest on a brutal end of the week for the markets and the military shifts on climate change ...

The result is a wholly original technique that allows them, at one and the same time, to make funny faces and wear funny hats and to deal accurately and candidly with what one man who has worked ...

To realize this goal, Cecil decided to move to Detroit, then home to one of the most thriving jazz communities ... Buddy Tate, Joanne Brackeen, Dinah Washington, Benny Goodman, George Benson, Nancy ...

"I came over here to Gee's Bend to tell you, You are somebody," he shouted over a heavy rain late one winter night in ... stops in such cities as New York, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Boston ...

Nicknamed “Sassy” and often referred to by her devotees as “The Divine One,” Vaughan was a significant ... pop hits for Brook Benton, Dinah Washington, and Jerry Butler.

Trumpeter Woody Shaw was one such victim. By the late 80s he ... made up mostly of Dizzy’s band members – backing Dinah Washington on some singles for Mercury. From 1953, Coltrane focused ...