There's a reason historians keep circling back to jazz. Not because it's the most commercially dominant genre today - honestly, it isn't - but because few forces in American history moved through so ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater will bring its acclaimed production to Charleston, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles ...

New Orleans holds claim to something equally colorful and distinctly American – the birthplace of jazz. The enchanting musical tradition that emerged from the streets, clubs, and parades of the ...