The keyboard, everything, came to me,” she said, “including knowing that I wanted ‘Fanga’ to go with that.” It was the moment of inspiration for the title song of “Soaring High,” Kuumba’s live concert ...

Horn is one of those singers who warms the soul,” a reviewer noted after Horn’s recent performance at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

He played the trumpet with Lionel Hampton, produced albums ('Thriller'), songs ("We Are the World," "It's My Party"), films ('The Color Purple') and TV shows ('Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'), scored movies ...

Incorporating American, Brazilian, African and "classical" European elements ... This piece's format -- a song followed by ...

But nobody made the song jump like Jones did — one reason Ol’ Blue Eyes ... the Road” — with Ross as Dorothy and Jackson as ...

But Jones insisted it was all jazz at heart. “If you really listen to ... The same year, Jones became the first African-American to be nominated for Original Song for The Eyes of Love (from Robert ...

Pioneering producer, film composer and music industry titan achieved a number of ‘firsts’ over a seven-decade career ...

Quincy Jones took his final breath on Sunday, November 3, at 91, a year after he suffered a severe reaction to food.

“American Son,” however, was the last song Acuff sang for him. “I played it for him acoustic. He inspired that song. At home over Christmas, I was just kind of thinking about what I wanted ...

Fort Myers producer Julian Sundby was jamming in the studio one day when he came up with the bluesy jazz song "Time For Some Lightning." Soon, his friend Lindsay Jerger walked in the room and ...

African American Spirituals: Music and the Black Church ... Please make every effort to arrive on time, as we cannot accommodate late entry. NEC's Jazz Studies department collaborates with NEC's Song ...

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