Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues ...

It’s the root technique of most great Black music, dance, theater and performance ... A People’s History,” traces the path that the free jazz ensemble that is Black Twitter took in becoming ...

Many of the clubs where Black Seattleites used to gather to play and listen to jazz music are no longer standing, but an ongoing project aims to ensure they aren't forgotten. The latest ...

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 ...

Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century black music innovations, certain characteristics found in jazz do have their roots in much earlier musical traditions. Call and ...

NOTWITHSTANDING contested definitions of what constitutes jazz music, two elements can be found within almost any jazz performance or recording — improvisation and collaboration. Both are at the core ...

But the reformers do not halt the growing popularity of jazz among both black and white audiences. Recordings and radio broadcasts allow the music to reach beyond nightclubs, and the arrival of ...

Jim Black (born 1967 in Seattle, Washington) is a jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas, among others. He attended Berklee College of Music. His own group, AlasNoAxis, ...