Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s ...

And because of all this, the genre of jazz has suffered. According to Nielsen’s 2014 year-end report, jazz is steadily falling out of favor with American listeners. In 2014 it was tied with classical ...

For those of us engaged in trying to understand it, the history of jazz turns out to be much more than a study of this extraordinary American music. Jazz has offered a precise prism through which ...

Jazz festivals in America are more than entertainment—they’re living classrooms of history, culture, and innovation.

'Oxygen for the Ears: Living Jazz' is a story of the trials and triumphs of jazz in America. Every jazz tune has a start | dG1fN0VZeFJrLXYzNzA ...

In 1931, a white Texas teenager named Charlie Black went to hear some music at a hotel in Austin, Texas. He had never heard of the trumpet player, Louis Armstrong, but was transfixed by the ...

‘Music Behind Barbed Wires’ free concert in S.F. Japanese American musicians who kept playing after they forced into internment camps.

"The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, the first movie with talking actors, was released on this day in history, Oct. 6, 1927. The cinema landmark caused a sensation.

Sign up for our NewslettersErskine Hawkins, Sun Ra and Lionel Hampton are notable jazz musicians that were born and raised in Birmingham. >> COMING TOGETHER: Project CommUNITYThe history of jazz in ...

Dangerous Rhythms. By T.J. English. William Morrow, 448 pages; $29.99 and £25 “S trange fruit,” writes T.J. English, is “the seminal jazz song.” This haunting ballad, written by a Jewish ...