On “American Masters,” we also visit her short marriage to politician-pastor Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who was even more ...

T here’s only one singer in the world who has their jazz scat solos sung back at them note-for-note by arenas filled with ...

While helping push jazz to the forefront of the music industry, musician Roy Ayers sadly passed away at 84 years old.

Jazz bassist Donald Rafael Garrett helped birth the AACM and appeared on some of Coltrane’s wildest albums, but he’s barely ...

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

The double Grammy-winning American jazz singer is back touring the UK in April spreading a message of optimism and hope.

Jazz lovers will not want to miss the incredible evening of music lined up at Clarksville's oldest professional live theatre ...

Brady, 92, continued to play music, visiting his old school and even performing for fellow residents at the assisted living facility where he was staying.

At 84, the drummer whose discography includes credits on more than 600 albums is releasing another by his long-running ...

Watch and listen to five recent highlights, including music at a fraught moment in the Kennedy Center’s history and a passing delight in Tchaikovsky.

Pioneering jazz pianist-singer Nat King Cole is best known for classics such as “Mona Lisa” and “The Christmas Song” as well as for hosting his own television show on NBC in 1956. However, it was a ...

The sound of a single piano key, crisp and deliberate, fills the space before it melts into a cascade of chords — warm, ...