The smooth, sax-laden sounds of Michael ... and other indelible musicians of the time, along with rock journalists and scholars, define the music as taking its cues from jazz, funk, and R&B, laying ...

On a crisp autumn Sunday, St. Mary’s Church welcomed an afternoon of musical warmth and upbeat charm as jazz duo Peter Duncan and David ...

Lou Donaldson, the celebrated American saxophonist who helped shape jazz, passed away at 98 on November 9. A leading figure ...

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 ...

The former director of Giwayen Mata, Atlanta's all-women drumming group, is reinventing herself as a bandleader.

The 2023 TD James Moody Jazz Festival took place from November 3 to 19 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and a ...

Lou Donaldson's career spanned over half a century, and several of his recordings were sampled in some of the most impactful ...

U.S. saxophonist Lou Donaldson, one of jazz music's last remaining links to the era of bebop in the 1950s who went on to ...

“Fire Escape” will premiere in Cambridge at Farm League Brewing Saturday, Nov. 23 at 6:30 p.m. The team plans to showcase the film at various festivals across Ontario. While festival screenings are ...

South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim laughs when he remembers a gig he played shortly after he moved to America in ...

A player of impeccable technique ... by his inspiration on the alto sax, Charlie Parker. The National Endowment for the Arts named Mr. Donaldson a Jazz Master in 2012. A player of impeccable ...

“Jazz has to hit a certain spot,” Donaldson explained in his autobiography, according to the New York Times. “There’s a ...