The orchestra also plays music by Joan Tower, Florence Price and Duke Ellington. John Shea presents. 12:31 AM Joan Tower ...

Colors In Rhythm Mercer Ellington Children of great parents have a hard time. In the case of Mercer Ellington, it is even ...

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe Director Jim Weaver shares his take on Duke Ellington's expanding jazz universe and what it's ...

Billie Holiday, Miles Davis... jazz has long spoken truth to power, even without words. In fact, the genre's lack of lyrics ...

Back Seat Drivers The Back Seat Drivers will perform Oct. 15 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Logger Bar in Blue Lake. (This date is corrected from the incorrect date previous mentioned in Tuesday’s Boomers ...

T he legendary comedian and actor Jackie Gleason often listed “musician,” “composer” and “conductor” as a part of his ...

This week on The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it's a “Table For One.” Songs from the hi-fi era about being alone and lonely. We ...

Working alone at his own board, Ovrkast. raps through everything he owes his father, his city, his peers, and the men who ...

October means more Sarasota area arts groups starting new seasons, and that trend certainly continues this week. Westcoast ...

What brings a legendary Black singing cowboy back to Detroit's famed Gotham Hotel on the eve of its demolition? That mystery unfolds in The Bronze Buckaroo Rides the Gotham Hotel, a new one-man play ...

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will perform a children's concert on Nov. 12 at the Oaklawn Event Center in Hot Springs.

Yet despite the genre’s overall scroll of innovators, jazz as a whole has scrambled for the spotlight in-between (and ever ...