British jazz legend Shabaka Hutchings, playing at this month’s WOMADelaide music festival, holds a deep passion for the ...

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Black history month aims to pay tribute to African Americans ... What he's passionate about: Ayo is passionate about jazz. That's probably because he was literally born to the sounds of ...

Unlike most African American jazz musicians at that time ... After learning to play a clarinet at the age of thirteen, he switched to the alto saxophone a year later before settling on the ...

As a child, I fell in love with the clarinet thanks to the sound of Bela Kovacs ... so I try to maximize this as much as possible. If I weren't a jazz musician, I would be a... I don't consider myself ...

Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album Hymns of Bantu ... out of blended Western and African traditions.

South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe talks about his new album "Hymns of Bantu," which highlights the healing power of song across... South African cellist Abel Selaocoe fosters ...

In addition to performing on the cello, Selaocoe is also a singer, improviser and composer who melds African and Western traditions. Much of the album is made up of exactly that kind of melding.

Jazz musician Roy Ayers plays an African Marimba instrument during his ... Ayers had 12 albums land in the Billboard 200 album charts, the highest being “You Send Me” in 1978 at No. 48.

Justin Gusmano, a 15-year-old musician from Merrick, has just released his debut album “Forever Alive,” a collection of eight original tracks blending jazz, blues and instrumental fusion.