On Thursday, July 10th, veteran singer and actress Melba Moore headlined 54 Below in New York City for a great turnout.

I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Women have shaped jazz from the very beginning—on the mic, at the piano, and behind ...

Bessie Smith, often hailed as the “Empress of the Blues”, was among the earliest voices to command national attention in the ...

Melba Liston recalled in interviews that later became included in Sophisticated Giant (University of California Press, 2018), a biography on Gordon, that with other music they played all the time, ...

Jazz musician Melba Liston's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.

It was a time, after all, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Melba Liston were dispatched as cultural ambassadors to Africa’s post-colonial regions, only to realize they were smokescreens ...

It was a time, after all, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Melba Liston were dispatched as cultural ambassadors to Africa’s post-colonial regions, only to realize they were smokescreens ...

This week, large ensembles and horn sections arranged Don Sebesky for Freddie Hubbard, Mary Lou Williams for the Twelve Clouds of Joy, Quincy Jones for The Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra plus arrangements ...

Arrangements were put together by the band's trombone player Melba Liston - showcasing Griffin's energy and lyricism in the midst of an orchestra of brass and strings.

“It’s an homage to Melba Liston, a female trombonist born in 1926 when there weren’t many women playing the trombone or composing music, which she also did,” Grant-Cooper told PIX11 News.