The marriage of music and dance requires a careful collaboration, one that allows for both genres to complement each other. Les Ballets Jazz Montréal’s “Dance Me” fuses the emotionally potent songs of ...

In a quiet backyard nestled in the Sherman Oaks hills, seasoned jazz musician Larry Goldings begins to play the punchy opening notes to Van Halen’s “Jump” on his prized melodica. Standing beside him ...

Alto saxophonist Charles McPherson has a reputation as one of the last true followers of the bebop tradition but this release shows that his talents stretch beyond that. The music consists of scores ...

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Jazz arrived in St. Louis more than a century ago, with the Mississippi River acting as a cultural highway for Black music and dance migrating from the deep South. With St. Louis an established hotbed ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Duke Ellington, a giant in jazz history, was more than just a composer and bandleader—he was a cultural architect whose music told the stories of Black excellence, struggle, and ...