Cash & Skye are releasing their long-in-the-making debut album, Just a Stranger, on February 21. Today we have the pleasure ...

It includes songs by Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ellis Marsalis, James Black and other New Orleans musicians. Rozanna M. Martinez is the arts and entertainment editor of the Albuquerque ...

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Jader Bignamini release a new recording of Pulitzer Prize and GRAMMY-winning trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Wynton Marsalis's epic Blues Symphony ...

Zach Theatre stages the mega-hit 'Jersey Boys" about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons with expert precision and unexpected depth ...

Jelly Roll Morton.) Nominated for eight Tony Awards, "Jersey Boys" won for Best Musical because, in part, as Abate says, the creators were "looking to write a play with music." It ran 4,642 ...

It began with what seemed like a paraphrase of “Wild Man Blues,” and then featured Mr. Mason playing very spare blues piano as well as Mr. Rice, and eventually evolved into a piece that recreated what ...

[Pianists] Oscar Peterson, Jelly Roll [Morton], [Thelonius] Monk, Randy Weston and others reinterpreted the playing of the piano. John Coltrane took the European saxophone and reinterpreted its ...

Black History Month honors the sacrifices of Black people in America. Throughout February, many organizations and art groups will host events to help celebrate the history of Black Americans. Below is ...

Some facts about Black History Month have been well-established: Carter G. Woodson was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. His frat created Negro History and Literature Week in 1924. Woodson sent ...

In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post ...

Although he might have also honed his approach when playing in Blues Incorporated and across London’s R&B clubs, his great love was always jazz, and the likes of Charlie Parker, Jelly Roll Morton, and ...

The vocalists and musicians of the New Orleans Songbook will explore the history of jazz, tracing its evolution from the early compositions of Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong to the modern ...