Black musicians belonged to Local 767 while whites belonged to Local 47. In April 1953, Local 47 was amalgamated with ... Pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoff's body of elaborate, ambitious jazz concept ...

Songs, like “God Bless the Child” and “Lover Man,” further cemented ... Songs, like “I Know You Know” and “Black Gold” showcase her fusion of jazz, soul and Brazilian influences ...

West Coast jazz in the 1950s wasn't exclusively a white enterprise ... the remaining musicians were all black. Here's Buddy Collette's Man of Many Parts (Contemporary) without ad interruptions ...

Randy Weston, a fellow pianist-composer in the jazz tradition ... and especially diasporic Black history, in relationship to the music we make here in America; he's always trying to find these ...

Actor Rome Neal will portray jazz legend Thelonious Monk in a one-man play during a two-day celebration of Black History Month at the ProArts Playhouse in Kihei that will also include a concert of ...

about his experience as a Black jazz musician in Iowa City and as the first African-American man to earn a doctorate in jazz from the University of Colorado Boulder. Phillips performed at Jazz Fest on ...

The man fatally stabbed Levy ... On the one hand, there were the largely Black jazz luminaries such as Parker, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday who dazzled onstage while facing ...

If there is any question of where tens of thousands of people were over the weekend of March 8, the answer is simple: Miami Gardens’ 18th Annual Jazz in the Gardens Festival. The ninth largest ...