Jazz

The official countdown to the debut of Pixar’s first film with a Black lead has officially begun!

“I always knew I wanted to be a singer, I always wanted to be an artist,” Tiana Thomas, affectionately known as…

Legendary drummer Jimmy Cobb, the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ First Great Sextet, died at the age of 91 in…

Ellis Marsalis Jr., legendary jazz musician, educator and patriarch of the Marsalis family, has died at the age of…

Jazz legend Manu Dibango has died at the age of 86.

While many of us are responsibly stuck at home during this time of pandemic concern, the need for entertainment and…

There appear to be some questions arising in regard to Ja’Net DuBois’ lineage.

Another one of the greatest who ever did it has gone on to glory.

When I was a child watching reruns of Star Trek, one of the things I always wondered was … where did all the black…

In life, she was known as the “First Lady of Song” and the “Queen of Jazz.” And though the world lost legendary jazz…

John Coltrane is kind of a big deal.

I don’t know where you are, but where I’m at it’s hot as hell outside. It’s been in the 90s and a weather…

Today, we’re going international with our Black Music Month love. As a hip-hop head who also tried his hand at music…

Grammy-winning jazz drummer Lawrence Leathers died Sunday in New York City. He was 37.

His ingenuity directly influenced America’s one true original art form, but Charles “Buddy” Bolden, acknowledged by…

Nancy Sue Wilson, the award-winning singer who lent her vocal instrument to the world for over five decades, has…

To call the Wu-Tang Clan one of the most influential musical acts of all-time isn’t hyperbole. When they burst onto…

A horn riff. A thump of the bass. A tinkle of the keys followed by the “boom-bap” of the drums. These sounds are the…

“Every night in my sleep, I need you beside me.”

In the world of women in music, there are queens, princesses, first ladies and even a duchess—but there has only…