King James Britt, a long-time composer, producer, and performer, is part of the Juneteenth Jubilee celebration at the San ...

Johnson, a pioneering Black musician born in Philadelphia in 1792, was the first African American composer to publish sheet ...

His jazz writings include the prize winning biography Milestones ... Duke Ellington was a tonal impressionist. Each musician in his band had two functions—to be able to play and to have a special ...