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 ...

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, ...

Her slow-burning rendition of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s “West Side Story” ballad — “my all-time favorite,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Gary Peacock, from Jarrett’s Standards Trio, was on bass and Paul Motian, from Jarrett’s American Quartet ... Here’s top-drawer piano-trio jazz that consistently holds sway.