Earl Arnett has spent 10 years writing a memoir of his love story with jazz great Ethel Ennis. It depicts a revealing portrait of Baltimore in the last 60 years.

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in ...

A spiritual saturnalia for every spring, Jazz Fest in New Orleans is a tradition like no other; here's a 2025 report from ...

In a career that stretched across seven decades, Grammy Award-winning music legend James Moody performed for two presidents at the White House and twice for the king ...

A slim, ordinary-looking man of colossal energy, ambition and ability, Jolson was a star of musical theater on Broadway and appeared in The Jazz Singer ... fixation of white America on blackness ...

This Jazz Appreciation Month, a Philadelphia jazz artist is putting a fresh spin on an old genre — using her lyrics to speak directly to today's women. Singer ... 7:30 p.m. at Black Squirrel ...

Chisholm said, via The Athletic: “I don’t want to say this — baseball is a white sport. I feel like white people criticize everything that a Black man ... room to treat Jazz Chisholm Jr ...

EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media has taken rights to Patrick Hoffman’s debut crime novel The White Van to develop as a feature for filmmaker Grant Singer. Singer and author Hoffman will team to ...

Roberta Flack, who inspired generations of singers with her subtle folk/jazz/blues storytelling that ... still illegal when she married him, who is white) ended in divorce. A celebration of ...

Voices honoring female jazz and blues ... and framed black and white portraits of Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and Ray Charles. Thornetta Davis, the 61-year-old singer-songwriter known as ...

The show opened with a tribute to the history and impact of jazz from Lucretia Sain, who had donned a white gown and ... evoking a sense of Black pride, joy and community in the crowd of Detroiters in ...

As we celebrate Black Music Month, we can't forget the White singers who have moved us over ... "StingWith his soulful mix of reggae, jazz and elements of gospel, we had no choice but to listen ...