The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame plays a pivotal role for Black musicians, featuring more than 200 inductees and displaying ...

Pioneering jazz pianist-singer Nat King Cole is best known for classics such as “Mona Lisa” and “The Christmas Song” as well ...

"Be ready to be immersed in the rich cultural legacy of Five Points as not only an epicenter for jazz music, but an epicenter ...

Before LaFace Records and So So Def Recordings, there was Black Swan Records, a record company by Georgian Harry Pace that released music by Black artists for Black listeners.

A father of seven children, Whitaker made his name in the jazz ... program is that he teaches jazz as a part of the Black experience in America. “We teach jazz music from the Black perspective ...

Uncover the nearly erased, but not forgotten, histories of these Black communities and their ... to celebrate the life of Lionel Batiste, a singer, bass drummer, and assistant grand marshal ...

Nashville is known for country music, but there are standout artists here in other genres, too. This month we're highlighting ...

Coordinated through and hosted by the Office of Intercultural and Diversity Affairs, the luncheon recognizes Black ... jazz saxophonist Don Aliquo. “The evening concert will showcase the dynamic ...

a network of music venues where Black performers could play during Jim Crow segregation. As a teenage bartender at the Cotton Club on Central Avenue, she met many prominent blues and jazz stars of ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. How did an Iowa boy named in part after Germany’s “Iron Chancellor” become one of jazz’s most ...

Coordinated through and hosted by the Office of Intercultural and Diversity Affairs, the luncheon recognizes Black Americans ... s finest singers,” said Director of Jazz Studies Jamey Simmons.