Once Upon a Time in Harlem is continuing its strong push for Oscar recognition, earning five nominations Tuesday for the ...

Intellectuals reframe the Harlem Renaissance not merely as an artistic movement, but as a crucial socio-political awakening ...

Seven new names are joining the San Diego Music Hall of Fame this week, with a Friday ceremony set to honor reggae act Big ...

Beloit Memorial High School Jazz Orchestra and Sun Prairie High School Jazz Ensemble are the shows’ openers on Wednesday and ...

The Root is celebrating 100 years of John Coltrane and the Long Island home where he composed “A Love Supreme,” and where his ...

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

The English Renaissance meets the Harlem Renaissance in “Play On!,” a sparkling show that marries a loose adaptation of ...

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

A sleepy stretch of alley in Washington's West End neighborhood is about to get a lot livelier. New liquor license filings ...

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 ...