RICHMOND, Va., May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- This August 9 th, 10 th and 11 th, the 2024 Richmond Jazz and Music Festival invites you to immerse yourself in "Sounds & Colors" at historic Maymont.

This April, at the National Museum of American History, we’re celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month! Check out the calendar to learn more! Amy Kehs Jazz Appreciation Month JAZZ April is Jazz ...

A tribute to Duke Ellington adorns a building in Washington, D.C., but what will happen to the genre of American music he helped pioneer? Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2010. Courtesy of the Library of ...

Jazz was all over the place in 2022. I mean that as a compliment, and with an intended double meaning: We saw some great examples of improvisers flowing through the culture, and we also heard ...

It's taken some time, about a century in fact, but finally, thanks chiefly to editor and jazz historian Francesco Martinelli of Siena Jazz, the first comprehensive, pan-European history of jazz sees ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The inaugural Memphis Jazz Festival is drawing crowds to downtown Memphis for a weekend of live music and fun. “We’re always looking for unique ways to bring people to our downtown.

“God has wrought many things out of oppression,” begins Martin Luther King, Jr.’s essay occasioned by the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival. “He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from ...

The BM in Jazz & African American Music Studies is an intensive, professionally oriented degree, requiring eight semesters of study. Bachelor of Arts in Jazz & African American Music Studies The BA in ...