Exactly 100 years ago this winter, two recordings features Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet marked the triumph of New ...

Musicals have stood out as a landmark genre in cinema ever since the first film with sound, The Jazz Singer. Since then, ...

The Sacramento History Museum is hosting a new exhibit to celebrate Black History Month. The museum is also hosting a concert and history talk to close out BLM.

A multiple award-winning vocalist is returning to Café Centro next month with an audience-wowing musical tribute, DAWN DEROW ...

Maurice Ravel is one of the greatest French composers who ever lived. Along with Claude Debussy, he single-handedly changed ...

Byron Stripling will be guest conductor for “Gershwin, Berlin & Friends” which begins at 7:30 p.m. at Springfield Symphony Hall. He will be accompanied by guest vocalist Sydney McSweeney, Bobby Floyd ...

The star-studded homage included contributions from Herbie Hancock, Janelle Monáe, Stevie Wonder and many more artists.

As we journey towards our next Mystery Artist, we find that in the early 20th Century, the US was a veritable "melting pot" of Afro-Caribbean and Latin music styles. But why? And can we trace this ...

Inarguably Mel Brown’s drumming places him as one of the most influential musicians in the history of the Rose City. In fact, ...

The label Jazz Is Dead is boosting his rediscovery ... The Ghanaian musician helped popularize highlife, a dance music that emerged in the first part of the 20th century, blending local rhythms ...

Rather than the concert starting at the traditional 3 p.m., the Escher Quartet's Sunday concert will begin at 2 p.m. to allow ...

Dexter Gordon and Slide Hampton’s jazz album “A Day in Copenhagen”—piped into the galleries—is the principal soundtrack for “Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century,” at ...