The work of 12 Black composers was brought to light on Wednesday, Feb. 5, through the Illumination concert, a performance ...

NEW YORK — “Saturday Night Live” was built with a cast of young no-names performing countercultural comedy. Fifty years later ...

Kiana Del has music by Michael Abels, Quincy Jones, Kathryn Bostic and more honoring Black composers and stories.

The first thing that you have to accept when you write a book about early blues music, Dr. Gregg Kimball says, is that you’ll never solve the mystery of it all. “We just dont ...

Ex-Beatle and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ringo Starr on his countrified "Look Up" and the inspiration collaborations and peace-inspired songs offer.

The blues-inflected musician’s new album fuses well-wrought songs with the hiss and crackle of deliberately distorted production.

In her new book, Black in Blues ... musicians have been talking about a blues scale … and that's actually just a wonderful example because the addition of the blue note to the sound of American music ...

Marvin Gaye, 'Inner City Blues (Make Me Holler)' (1971 ... Brooklyn art-rock legends TV on the Radio. The music video offsets black-and-white footage of 20th-century protests with full-color ...

"Black & White City Blues" explores themes of addiction, temptation, and our commitments to each other. Set in 1970s Williamsburg, there is an edgy and gritty feeling to the cast and script.

Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds ... The fraught background of toile de Jouy, the printed fabric whose scenes long depicted only the white experience, has been well ...