Art Blakey's '’S Make It,' recorded in 1964 and released the following year on Limelight, is getting a Verve Vault reissue.

"Birth of a Movement" explores how Black newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter helped launch a protest in 1915 to ban D. W. Griffith’s film, "Birth of a Nation." It will be ...

The career of brilliant saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera began in his native Cuba, where he first earned worldwide recognition as a member of the all-star group Irakere. Since coming to ...

Digable Planets was a jazz hip-hop group from Brooklyn, New York, United States which formed in 1992. The group consists of rappers Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler, Ann "Ladybug" Vieira and Craig ...

Lonnie Plaxico is a Chicago-born bassist, composer, and producer whose career spans jazz, funk, and beyond. Raised in a ...

The second edition of a revived jazz festival in Bremerton is promising more bands participating compared with last year. Twenty high school jazz bands, 7 middle school jazz bands, and 12 vocal jazz ...

On February 5th, a rare sight was seen in Boston: the Jazz Mandolin Project was on the road beyond Burlington, Vermont, for ...

Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be tracked and analyzed, using a Nobel Prize-winning chemistry technique. A ...

It's a book, and accompanying CD. Or, it's a CD and accompanying book. Either way, this latest project from Millburn indie band The Cucumbers is adorable ...

It will be like the New Standards’ Holiday Show minus the dancing Christmas trees and yule tunes. The New Standards will have ...

With the release of his sophomore album, Fly, in October 2024, jazz vocalist, composer and songwriter Michael Mayo ascended to new artistic heights. In an interview with All Things Considered, Mayo ...