The name has obvious political resonance. Indeed, the raison d'être of the Black Art Jazz Collective, the sextet founded by Wayne Escoffery, Jeremy Pelt and Jonathon Blake in 2013, is to celebrate ...

Jazz is the only true American art form. Jazz grew out of the great mix in and around New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th Century. Most of these early, often nameless, musicians were Black.

It was against the law for black and white musicians to play together.” Neville, of the Grammy-winning Neville Brothers, along with a host of jazz musicians will be performing ... and the role of ...

But jazz was music that both black and white people could enjoy ... Some people say that jazz is America’s only true art form. That’s because it began here, hundreds of years ago, in the ...

Black musicians were fighting discrimination and segregation on the bandstand. During the Jim Crow era in America, the world of jazz was one of the only places where Black and white people mixed ...

As noted in the thoroughly entertaining “Oscar Peterson: Black + White,” the ... who reigned over the jazz keyboard for 60 years. Which is not to say that a Black musician coming up in the ...

the streets of the Five Points neighborhood of Denver will be lined with art galleries, echoing the sounds of jazz music and smelling of culinary delights as Denverites celebrate Black History Month.

CAMBRIDGE — It’s a sensory paradox. Music is an aural art, yet the richer its sounds the more they can conjure up images. This relationship between seeing and hearing is central to “Art of ...

His groundbreaking 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall is often credited with legitimizing jazz as a respectable art form. Goodman was also a trailblazer in integrating black and white musicians in his ...