You'll be happy to know that that the Black Art Jazz Collective's new album Truth to Power (HighNote) is warmly stormy and soulfully engaging. This collective is a sextet that has been around since ...

Music, connection, and pure soulful energy reflecting on Black queer survival, identity, resistance and liberation.

“Truth To Power” spotlights the duality at the heart of the BAJC project, which is that it’s a group intended to glorify Black artists and stand proudly for high-level acoustic ...

A young Black TikToker has a viral post saying ... a little peace instead of protest has brought us to jazz music and its universal power to unite. That unity did not come without a struggle ...

His latest project, HBO’s South to Black Power, focuses on writer and commentator Charles ... Pollard underwent a transformative shift as he discovered a passion for jazz through a childhood friend.

New Jazz gear will sell ... creativity, playfulness. Black represents power and authority, elegance, sophistication. That doesn’t sound so bad, does it? On the other hand, those colors also ...

From Nelson Mandela to Muhammad Ali and the so-called Grandassa Models, Brathwaite's work embraced Black power and beauty ... the African Jazz Art Society & Studio. Born Ronald Brathwaite in ...

Marsalis and Stevenson have debuted “Freedom, Justice and Hope,” their live performance album of historic jazz records created to protest racial injustice. NEW YORK (AP) — Black music ...

But jazz wasn’t just mixing musical genres—it also mixed races. Decades before Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, Black musicians were fighting discrimination and ...

The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run nightclubs, the venues that serve alcohol and hire black musicians. These speakeasies allow whites and blacks to mingle ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Peacock Café in downtown Toledo is honoring Black History Month and the contributions of Black Americans through a series of jazz and soul performances. Beginning Feb. 20 and ...