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 ...

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 ...

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.