New Orleans holds claim to something equally colorful and distinctly American – the birthplace of jazz. The enchanting musical tradition that emerged from the streets, clubs, and parades of the ...

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 ...

If a building represented Tatsu Aoki’s life, it would look like the Asian Improv Arts Midwest dojo, on Elston Avenue. After years of renting space from the Japanese American Service Committee, AIRMW ...

This April, at the National Museum of American History, we’re celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month! Check out the calendar to learn more! Amy Kehs Jazz Appreciation Month JAZZ April is Jazz ...

Lancaster leaders say the annual event at Binns Park is a great way to connect the city to its African American community.

Performances will be held across multiple venues downtown Thursday through Sunday for the 38th annual festival.

There was a 13-year window in the United States around the turn of the 20th century during which alcohol was made illegal. That time period, known as prohibition, lasted from 1920 to 1933. The era, of ...

The bossa nova wave was one of the first significant impacts on jazz since Miles Davis, Claude Thornhill and Gil Evans restored balance between the ensemble and the soloist in the late 1940s. As ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your Guide to KC: Star culture and identity writer J.M. Banks is acting as a tour guide of sorts to some well-known and hidden ...