Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...
Outstanding innovators in the world of jazz had above-average levels of drug and alcohol abuse, psychotic disorders and other mental health problems, research has claimed. A study of 40 world ...
We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...
This three-night stand features Chicago great Ari Brown, who has been at the forefront of the city’s free-jazz scene since the late 1970s. Brown, a tenor saxophonist, flutist and pianist ...
Neranenah will kick off its 2025 season Sunday at Studio Theatre at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center with a live performance of jazz music with ties to Milt Gabler, the founder of ...
That’s not to suggest his existence is somehow fraught — far from it; his demeanor is contemplative, avuncular, searching — but rather the 73-year-old Grammy-winning jazz great understands ...
In depicting African American culture, Romare Bearden painted jazz scenes, incorporated titles of favorite performances in his collages, and created specific works for albums by Charlie Parker, Donald ...
As a jazz musician, Kamasi Washington knows how ... Considered one of Argentina's greatest musicians and a major exponent of nuevo tango, Piazzolla's work was made famous by Wong Kar-Wai's 1997 ...