In November 2024, I went to see the jazz pianist Jason Moran perform at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Playing the music of Duke Ellington, this visionary artist of the hip-hop generation ...

There's a reason historians keep circling back to jazz. Not because it's the most commercially dominant genre today - honestly, it isn't - but because few forces in American history moved through so ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Thursday marks what would be the 104th birthday of jazz legend and Kansas City icon Charlie Parker. Now, there is a new way to celebrate his legacy, support the American Jazz Museum ...

A leading Native American jazz musician, trumpet player Delbert Anderson was hailed by The New York Times for “mining traditional Navajo ‘spinning songs’ of love, healing and courtship, and marrying ...

Inductee to the Jazz Walk of Fame Patti Austin spoke at the 10th annual induction ceremony Saturday. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star The sun began to peek through the clouds as Congressman ...

New Orleans holds claim to something equally colorful and distinctly American – the birthplace of jazz. The enchanting musical tradition that emerged from the streets, clubs, and parades of the ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...