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).

Bill Frisell and his band will be performing at a Kingston correctional facility on July 29 as part of Chris Brown's Pros and ...

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

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

On June 13 the sad news arrived that legendary South African drummer and composer Louis Moholo-Moholo had passed away at 85 after a long illness. Louis, “Tebogo,” Bra Louis, as he was ...

In 1968, a 16-year-old kid booked the jazz legend to perform at his high school. More than five decades later, a forgotten ...

It’s a big weekend of celebrating African American Heritage with Culture Fest and an Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival, but ...

The free one-day festival once again brings live music, DJs, family activities and entertainment to Bristol’s historic centre ...

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.

LVVRS, the pop-rock band formed on Valentine's Day 2018, is lined up for a return appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, a new single dropping soon, a new album out this fall.

Who's playing at the Highland Jazz and Blues Festival 2025? Find out here. Makenzie Boucher. Shreveport Times. ... 2:45 p.m. - Lady Chops 4:15 p.m. - North Desoto Middle School Jazz Band ...

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 ...