Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the ...

As a South African jazz researcher I have often focussed on this period. Racially mixed groups could not be on the same stage (Moholo-Moholo often had to play behind a curtain).

Stan Strickland and Joel Harrison have been making music together for 43 seasons now, and are holding another concert to ...

The longstanding jazz culture evolved from a brass band movement that was begun by an Armenian band brought to the country by Haile Selassie, Ethiopia's last emperor, after he saw it perform in ...

On July 11, singer, songwriter, and blues guitarist Allan Harris performs at Marcus Garvey Park as the Brooklyn native brings his soulful sound home.

A lot of band cats from Birmingham, then they moved to New York," said Daniel Carr Jr., a jazz musician in Birmingham. Modern music genres like pop, rock, rap and R&B all have roots in jazz music.