Discover 7 essential Black Music Month festivals this June celebrating jazz, gospel, hip-hop and R&B across North Carolina, ...

Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass band, and blues styles. The improvisational music that results has a syncopated rhythm ...

“African-American musical traditions mixed with others and gradually jazz emerged from a blend of ragtime, marches, blues and other kinds of music,” writes the National Museum of American Histor ...

one of five native genres of African American music; the others are blues, jazz, rhythm and blues (R&B) and hip-hop music (including rap and breakdancing), which has existed for 50 years.Enslaved ...

The movement of her body and the drum are one. Every sway and hit of her hips seems effortlessly in sync with beats from the ...

The Halifax Street Music Festival in Petersburg celebrates 18 years of bringing the community together with free music, food ...

The exhibit, titled "Never Turn Back: Echoes of African American Music," traces the roots of gospel, blues, jazz, and soul and their lasting impact on American culture. Co-anchor Tyrah Majors sat ...

DENVER (KDVR) — This Saturday and next, the streets of the Five Points neighborhood of Denver will be lined with art galleries, echoing the sounds of jazz ... include an African American Artist ...