NBC 5, Telemundo 39, and The Black Academy of Arts and Letters invite you to the 8th Riverfront Jazz Festival on Labor Day ...

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The John P. "Top" Greene Park's Summer 2025 events will offer cultural workshops and "Jazz on the Greene" music shows.

African-American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor Lionel Hampton, Jazz musician Ziggy Elman and a Jazz orchestra playing instruments and singing, 1945.

African-American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor Lionel Hampton, Jazz musician Ziggy Elman and a Jazz orchestra playing instruments and singing, 1945.

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

Jazz is deeply rooted in Paris's modern culture, thanks to African American musicians. The City of Lights holds dozens of large jazz festivals every year, and the Due des Lombards club is ...

The cultural makeup of early New Orleans differed dramatically from other American cities. By the late 1700s, people of African descent – both enslaved and free – constituted more than half ...

If you go to hear a jazz singer at your local venue, you will most likely experience “scatting” or “scat”. Scat singing can be disconcerting because it involves the singer departing from ...

The exhibit, titled "Never Turn Back: Echoes of African American Music," traces the roots of gospel, blues, jazz, and soul and their lasting impact on American culture.