Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

The most admired, desirable and attractive people and things, those that are universally deemed cool, have been part of the ...

With around 2,000 albums and singles to his name, one session drummer has been discovered to boast the most studio credits in his field.

Ella Fitzgerald. Count Basie. Tony Bennett. Aerosmith. Vanilla Fudge. Cab Calloway. Benny Goodman. The Kinks. Chubby Checker. Besides being music royalty, what do all these names have in common?

This February at the museum, we're celebrating a new season of the podcast, commemorating Black History Month, and listening ...

The show exploring Black America's migration out of the South through a musical lens opens Sunday as part of the Tucson Desert Song Festival.

Tickets are $16 for adults; $10 for seniors, students and military service members, and children 12 and younger; and free for ...

San Jose Jazz’s Bruce Labadie has been through this before, helping analyze and program festivals and performing arts centers ...

Opening the New Year season at Splash Point Jazz Club Eastbourne on Wednesday, January 29 is Rythme Futur, a four-piece band who have in the past attracted some of the biggest audiences at the club.

In the 1920s and 1930s, acclaimed musicians and singers performed at the Valley Dale Ballroom, such as Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, George Olsen, Bing Crosby, Dorris Day, and Duke Ellington.

This year’s Valentine’s Swing Dance begins at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, February 14, in the lobby of the Jackson N. Sasser Fine ...