Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...

Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass band, and blues styles. The improvisational music that results has a syncopated rhythm ...

Now, for the first time, a new awards show will recognise the talent and hard work of black music in Wales. The first ever ...

They recorded a feature for VH1 Music Diaries ... Zian’s deep vocals, well-suited to jazz and inflected with hints of funk and RnB, and her mastery of the scatting technique, result in a ...

Nashville based soul singer-songwriter Jed Harrelson has found a way to fuse sounds of Soul, RnB, Blues, and Jazz. While being influenced by artists such as Marcus King, John Mayer, and Allen Stone, ...

Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube In jazz, Chicago always has been a nurturer of fabulous eccentrics — musicians well-aware of what their coastal colleagues are playing but ...

The Jazz Music Awards celebrates the best in today's jazz. The inaugural broadcast is hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater and Delroy Lindo, under the musical direction of Terri Lyne Carrington ...

He went on to record three albums with jazz flautist Herbie Mann before forming Roy Ayers Ubiquity and landing the hit Everybody Loves the Sunshine in 1976, from the album of the same name. His last ...