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 ...

Detroit jazz bassist and educator Marion Hayden named the 2025 Kresge Eminent Artist ... Gospel of course, you know, all the branches of black music. - Yeah. - And so I try to bring all those ...

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 ...

What began as Negro History Week — established by historian Carter G. Woodson in February 1926 — evolved into Black History ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

An itinerant white performer, Thomas Dartmouth Rice, blackened his face and claimed to be mimicking the songs and dances of an enslaved man, named Jim Crow. White performers and later even black ...