The album’s title, Blues Blood, plays on a phrase spoken by Daniel Hamm, one of six young Harlem African ... modern jazz. But songs dominate; Tamil vocalist Ganavya and the French-American ...

While many African artists have been able to ride the wave of Afrobeats’ international popularity, some musicians are now ...

Accolades have followed Horn for more than a decade, including top prizes at the 2013 ... to stand on their shoulders. Jazz music comes out of the African-American community.

She met a host of top African American performers (musicians ... she treated her comic interludes like jazz solos, peppering them with musical quotations, frequently bursting into bits of melody, ...

Jones saw a superstar quality in Jackson and became his producer and mentor, first on 1979's Off the Wall, which was a major ...

He was the first African American to hold such an executive position in a white-owned record company. Miles Davis and Quincy Jones in 1991 at the Montreux Jazz Festival ... to the top of the ...

Romance in the Dark, from highly-versatile vocalist-pianist-arranger Diane Marino and a team of Nashville's top studio players ... the talented, prolific African-American jazz composer, pianist, and ...

Their propulsive take on the show’s “Ease on Down the Road” — with Ross as Dorothy and Jackson as the Scarecrow in a proudly African American ... soul jam by the jazz guitarist turned ...

In a career which began when records were still played on vinyl at 78 rpm, top honors likely go to his productions ... rock, ...

Beginning in the 1950s, Quincy Jones influenced nearly every style of music, from jazz ... songs by a producer who set the standard in pop music. And that leads us to Jackson’s top groove ...

If instrumental solos just ain’t your thing, the festival also has some top ... and other jazz styles. Marilyn Mazur, Saturday, 2.30pm: A treat for percussion fans as the Danish-American brings ...