Roy Haynes, the prolific and proficient jazz drummer who recorded alongside Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, and ...

A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's ...

Yodan will no doubt impart that mindset and professionalism in his forthcoming contribution to this Piano Festival, which ...

Lou Donaldson, a pioneering figure in the soul jazz movement, passed away on November 9th. He was 98 years old.

Three Bowdoin employees—a writer for the communications office, a professor of Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and ...

A leading Native American jazz musician, trumpet player Delbert Anderson was hailed by The New York Times for “mining ...

“Bach? Beethoven? We’ve got better,” Mandela once said of the musician who just turned 90.

Are the vibes good? These tracks by Milt Jackson, Lionel Hampton, Roy Ayers and others, chosen by 12 musicians and writers, should convince you.

We revisit a 2016 interview when NPR’s Robert Siegel spoke with actor and comedian H. Jon Benjamin about a jazz album on which he plays piano despite no training.

Spanning 70 years and towering roles as a musician, songwriter/ composer, producer, arranger, entrepreneur and more, Quincy ...

What if I told you jazz is a Charleston birthright? That its melodies pulse through the Lowcountry like the weaving of sweetgrass baskets or the stirring of She-Crab soup. These rhythms, sparked by ...