South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim laughs when he remembers a gig he played shortly after he moved to America in ...
Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues ...
During a trip to Europe in 1953, accomplished 20th-century jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams was exhausted, ...
Jazz represents a multiformity of musical ... In St. Louis the formation in 1968 of The Black Musicians Group (BAG) created a nucleus of musicians devoted to fostering the creativity and ...
With endorsements from national recording artists such as Raheem DeVaughn and Jill Scott; hip-hop standouts Common, Big KRIT & Wale; producers Tone P and Chuck Thompson; super engineer Young Guru; and ...
Shortly after arriving in New York City in 1965, beginning a decades-long exile from apartheid-era South Africa, pianist Abdullah Ibrahim formed an unusual trio. Instead of the usual piano, bass, and ...
African-Americans in general, and black jazz musicians in particular, carry a complicated message to the rest of us, a genetic memory of our great promise and our great failing, and the music they ...
this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three jazz pianists with remarkably different styles: Soviet Leonid Chizhik, Black Montrealer Oliver Jones ...
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