Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz, saying it sounds better ... the venues that serve alcohol and hire black musicians. These speakeasies allow whites ...

Boasting a well-known reputation for loving all manner of music stylings, Godfather of Punk Iggy Pop selected two jazz musicians for particular praise.

He moved to New York City in the early 1980s, playing with Dizzy Gillespie ... “James was a tireless supporter of his fellow jazz musicians, both young and old, and maintained an almost single-pointed ...

Michael Brecker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and exposed to jazz at an early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. Among the generation of jazz musicians that saw rock music not as the ...

Roberta Flack, the iconic singer whose soulful voice and timeless hits captivated audiences worldwide, passed away on ...

In the early 1970s, he formed Roy Ayers Ubiquity, blending jazz, funk, and soul to create his own unique ... "It carries a ...

Notable early jazz musicians include Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, and King Oliver. Singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday gave jazz a global stardom, and a political edge in ...

and mainly African American musicians, jazz was firmly established on the European side of the Atlantic by the early 1920s. European musicians initially based much of their jazz vocabulary on the ...

Volland is thrilled to host an exceptional afternoon of jazz featuring six talented musicians from the University of Missouri ...