On February 20th, as part of the month-long Black History celebration, the Harlem School of the Arts will launch an important ...

Henry Minton opened what would become an historic landmark in the story of Black music and culture -- now, after nearly a ...

An accomplished songwriter of Broadway musicals and jazz standards, this West Virginian man is one of the people responsible ...

Harlem School Of The Arts To Launch New Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Academy Honoring The Trumpet Virtuoso And Celebrating His ...

HARLEM, NY – Not ready to let go of summer just yet? Even though fall is here, there’s still time to enjoy Afro-Latin jazz ...

Luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance and beyond are celebrated and memorialized in 25 commemorative plaques that now bear ...

One this special edition of Encore! we speak with jazz historian Dr. Richard Birkemeier, the producer and director of a ...

Their writing and their music, a cultural movement that ... A Train" celebrated the nightly migration of jazz fans and dancers traveling up to Harlem nightclubs. The Great Depression put a ...

overlaps directly with The Harlem Renaissance, a vibrant cultural and artistic movement. Both movements emphasised the transformative power of creativity, music (especially Jazz), and breaking ...

and their British brethren into supremely imaginative vehicles for improvisation with his 18 piece jazz big band. With A Lousy Day in Harlem, he unleashes his talent-laden ensemble on a gorgeous array ...

The photograph is now considered one of the most iconic in modern music history and has spawned ... Made with thanks to The National Jazz Museum in Harlem. The actor describes the moment Chris ...