Purnell Steen walks us through the city's jazz lineage as Dazzle prepares its programming for Black History Month.

John Mulaney may have spoken best to the mostly wonderful randomness of the lineup for Friday night’s live “SNL50: The ...

Counter Intuitive Records has a lot to celebrate, as it's coming up on its 10th anniversary in September; celebrating Black ...

For the past three years, St. Augustine has become the home of one of the most special Black History Month ... Feb. 6 with Grammy Award-winning jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy.

The 66-year old co-founder of the acclaimed KL International Jazz and Arts ... of something.” “Black Swan Rises” will feature a 21-piece Malaysian orchestral band, including guest musicians ...

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

Super Bowl 2025 pregame songs were a soulful celebration, from Jon Batiste's national anthem to "America the Beautiful" and the Black national anthem.

This year's event features Louise Story and Ebony Reed, co-authors of "Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

Jon Batiste brought musicianship and New Orleans flair to the Super Bowl national anthem, while Lauren Daigle and Ledisi also ...

One nice spring day in May 2024, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and his band—a distinctive ... of James Baldwin and the fiery Black consciousness jazz of Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln ...