Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and proto-rap group the Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred ...

A quadruple threat as a saxophonist, flutist, composer and band leader, James Moody left an enduring artistic legacy that is ...

I hope you liked my haiku. Some say April is the cruelest month, but with its showers come National Poetry Month AND Jazz ...

Fabu Phillis Carter, a scholar, educator, and the City of Madison’s first African American Poet Laureate, and Jane Reynolds, ...

The history-laden style movement will be front and center at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose spring exhibit kicks off with the biggest night in fashion, the Met Gala.

Once again, the Festival at Sandpoint saw fit to diss America’s only homegrown high art form. Serious jazz (e.g. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra ...

Tom Brown’s Jazz Fest plan was simple. He was going to find a roost in the WWOZ Jazz Tent and listen. He didn’t study the ...