In the Village Voice bestselling author T.J. English interviews saxophonist Darryl Yokley about his ambitious take on a literary masterpiece.

The Ware-Lyndon House Museum, an exhibition housed within downtown Athens’ Lyndon House Arts Center, was focused on the ...

Igmar Thomas’ ensemble bridges eras of Black American music with the soul-stirring project, ‘Like A Tree It Grows.’ ...

In America’s country music capital, a new generation is stepping out from the shadows of its beloved honky-tonks. Meet the ...

In Seattle’s Central District, Jackson Street was the epicenter of a musical revolution. Trailblazing Black musicians ...

I call it the first American music. It's my heritage," Davis said. "And I would like to pass it onto the other generations ...

Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, ...

Nestled in the heart of Birmingham's Civil Rights District, the Carver Performing Arts Theatre stands as a testament to Black excellence in t ...

American jazz musician Les McCann heard her singing at the Mr. Henry club in Washington and helped her sign a contract with Atlantic Records. As an African American woman growing up in the South ...

Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, composed in 1948 for American jazz legend Benny Goodman and scored with harp, strings and piano, opened the evening. YST Concerto Competition prize-winner ...

which developed during the 1930s within the flourishing African American jazz scene. It’s a beautiful collection of jargon and dialects spoken by Black people as a form of cultural expression. In ...

On Feb. 28, the Delbert Anderson Quartet is hosting a free afternoon workshop and will perform later that evening Native American trumpet ... when a jazz trio came to his school and performed.