The NEC Jazz Orchestra will present a special concert featuring the music of jazz legends Randy Weston and Melba Liston on February 26.

It’s always fascinating to hear how musicians from other countries have taken “America’s music” — Jazz — and adapted it to suit their ethnic and cultural heritage. This is especially true when one ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

Exploring jazz, this episode features Manu Dibango, King Sunny Adé, Noa and more. From highlife music to musette on the road where European and African music converge, we discover the diverse ...

IMPACT AROUND 400,000 PEOPLE IN OUR AREA. A LOCAL FILM DIRECTOR IS CELEBRATING JAZZ AND AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY WITH A NEW PROJECT, KMBC. NINE’S TERESA WHITE SHOWS US HOW KANSAS CITY PLAYS A LEADING ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

The Grammy Awards recognize all sorts of rising artists, but the Grammys also spotlight styles or subgenres or entire fields of music that are breaking through by forming new award categories. This ...

An African jazz advocacy initiative, PF Music, recently hosted the African Jazz Series Concert 2025, an event dedicated to showcasing the continent’s rich jazz heritage. The concert, held at Terra ...

The group that started at Antioch College in Ohio went to Africa and returned “transformed,” one of its members said. A new boxed set collects its little-heard albums from the 1970s. By Marcus J.

Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria As a researcher who documents historical and current South African jazz and popular music, I believe Mdunyelwa merits ...

Celebrated globally each year on April 30th, International Jazz Day pays tribute to the essence of artistic freedom. In South Africa, this celebration follows closely after the highly successful 2025 ...