No one description of jazz adequately ... work songs and field hollers, blues, jug bands, and juking are some of the places and art forms formed within African American communities.

Increasingly and with growing momentum, right up until he died at the young age of 55 in 2018, Roy Hargrove was a standard bearer for a new kind of African American jazz. The recipe embraced a variety ...

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...