The jazz artist opens up to ESSENCE exclusively about her new book and jazz album, her grief and hair journey, and finding ...

This year, Indy Jazz Fest will run from Sept. 17 to 28, featuring “I’m Every Woman” singer Chaka Khan and other jazz masters. Other headliners include the local Steve Allee Magic Hour Band and Marcus ...

Jazz McKenzie covered Smokey Robinson's "Cruisin'" on the NBC reality series, thrilling the coaches with her "unbelievable" ...

Where would we be without Ella? Without that voice, that propulsive sense of swing, that fleet technique and that seemingly inexhaustible well of improvisational creativity? Ella Fitzgerald, who died ...

The members of the jazz ensemble Straight Ahead (L-R) are Alina Morr, Kymberli Wright, Marion Hayden, Ingrid Racine and Gayelynn McKinney. Next weekend, the Women in the Arts Festival will be back in ...

Rushen, Moreire and Lundy have all received Grammy nominations. Rushen also landed a top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in ...

When thinking about jazz, it’s impossible to ignore the deep, soulful contributions of Black women who have shaped the genre into what it is today. From smooth and sultry vocals to bold, ...

A note to those who feel, not without merit, that popular culture is getting so stiflingly politically correct and even “woke” that it is being strangled to death: In 1989, when I published my book ...

When I was new to the music, all the standard histories of jazz were keen to dismiss what they derisively referred to as the “Vaudeville Blues” singers of the Jazz Age. I remember one line in ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. At the end, everyone came out for a performance of “On the Sunny Side of the ...

PARIS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Josephine Baker, the famed French American singer and dancer, was inducted on Tuesday into the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris - one of France's highest honours - at a ceremony ...