Declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during its General Conference 14 years ago, International Jazz Day—celebrated every April 30—honors a genre ...

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 ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Peacock Café in downtown Toledo is honoring Black History Month and the contributions of Black Americans through a series of jazz and soul performances. Beginning Feb. 20 and ...

Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, ...

Founded in 1969, Black Jazz Records was formed as an alternative to earlier jazz, with a roster comprised solely of African American artists and a focus on political and spiritual-influenced material.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. I have compiled a subjective, non-exhaustive list of 50 Black ...