Jack Kleinsinger, the jazz impresario known for producing the long-running concert series Highlights in Jazz, passed away on ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed ...

The Beach Boys’ current members Mike Love and Bruce Johnston paid tribute to late bandmate Brian Wilson following his death ...

May 30 is International Jazz Day. Jazz was born in early 1900s New Orleans, where African American musicians mixed blues, ragtime and a whole lot of soul into something brand new. With legends like ...

I'd now like to move on to another short on The Jazz Singer DVD that's not listed on this site: The Voice from the Screen. Hosted by Edward B. Craft, executive vice president of the Bell Telephone ...

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 (1927), the first feature-length movie with ...

Many fans agree that female jazz singers brought fresh energy and innovation to the genre in the 2000s. Their voices have added new depth and color to the jazz landscape. We promise to take you on ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. When the jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant was profiled in The New Yorker, Wynton ...

The jazz singer “went very peacefully,” her daughter said, and the family was also “at peace” as she died. “She went listening to some of her favorite songs,” her daughter shared.

“The Jazz Singer” and “Thelma and Louise” are among the offerings this spring for the 48th edition of the Buffalo Film Seminars. The popular series, hosted by UB faculty members Bruce Jackson and ...

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Jazz Singers will perform a recital titled “Bright with Love” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6, in Westbrook Recital Hall room 119. “We’re excited for this ...

The silent era of film was over. Directed by Alan Crosland and starring Al Jolson in the leading role, The Jazz Singer was a revolution of cinema. It tells the story of Jakie Rabinowitz ...