Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

Discover an exposé of great recent new and reissued jazz music releases that will appease even the most discerning jazz music ...

Tank and the Bangas, the genre-blending New Orleans band that intermingles R&B, funk, jazz, hip-hop and spoken word, finally ...

Perhaps the fires that devastated Los Angeles in early January will take such platitudes out of circulation, at least for a ...

Ahead of next week's announcement, BBC Culture's film critics forecast the likely contenders – from a musical about a trans crime boss to an architectural epic with Adrien Brody.

He won an Oscar for playing an Eastern European Jewish composer in The Pianist in 2003 ... his multifaceted performance in The Apprentice as Roy Cohn, who taught the dark arts of politics and ...

Gail Ann Kemp was a 'treasured' grandmother and a friend to many, her family said. Our thoughts are with them and all those who have lost a loved one ...

For the past decade, Sullivan Fortner has been stretching deep-rooted talents as a pianist, composer ... Harris, Kassa Overall, Tivon Pennicott, Peter Bernstein, Nicholas Payton, Billy Hart, Gary ...

The Jazz Composers Alliance (JCA) is a composer collective ... Darrell Katz, David Harris, and Mimi Rabson. The Berklee Global Jazz Institute Summit 16th Anniversary Celebration Concert honors the ...