Josephine Baker was one of the most iconic African American artists to make the journey to Paris. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Baker had already achieved fame as a dancer and singer in the United ...

On Saturday, Aug. 16, The Mainstay in Rock Hall, welcomes the James Fernando Jazz Trio to its stage. Based in Philadelphia, ...

"Well, if you can play jazz, you can play anything," said Carr. "To be a great jazz player, you got to study the horn, you got to get the horn down.

The distinctive contribution of the Modern Art Trio to jazz experimentation is the use of seriality. In the Modern Art Trio project there was no detachment from jazz, but at most some form of ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers.

The spectrum of American music influenced by African aesthetics includes (l. to r.) saxophonist Lester Young, jazz performances and compositions by trumpet player Miles Davis, and rhythm-packed ...

The Aba Diop Trio, renowned for their deep roots as ‘griots’ or West African traveling storytellers preserving history through music, are performing in Houston this Friday, September 20.

Now the pared-down trio format is common, for good reason—dropping the necessity of chasing chords around allows a lot of space and freedom. Drummer Alex Jenkins, in his second trio go-around, Black ...