Google celebrates the late Ella Fitzgerald's birthday with doodle
theGRIO REPORT - Today Google is commemorating the "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald's birthday with a Google Doodle on its search screen.
New Orleans Jazz Fest features living legends
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If there's a theme to this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, it may be living legends.
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents 'Blues for Smoke'
REVIEW - The Whitney Museum of American Art exhibit, 'Blues for Smoke,' features an exciting array of works by a wide range of contemporary black artists. But it offers so much more...
Happy 80th birthday Quincy Jones!
SLIDESHOW - Legendary producer and musician Quincy Jones was born 79 years ago today. Jones, known as 'The Dude' or sometimes simply as 'Q,' is an American music impresario...
Innovative jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd dies at 80
DOVER, Delaware (AP) — Jazz musician Donald Byrd, a leading hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950's, died Feb. 4 in Delaware, according to Haley Funeral Directors in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, Mich., which is handling arrangements...
Branford Marsalis headlines jazz festival in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Marsalis arrived in the impoverished Caribbean nation Friday to perform several shows at the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival...
Saxophonist Jimmy Greene's daughter among the Sandy Hook victims
theGRIO REPORT - Saxophonist Jimmy Greene was among those who lost his daughter, Ana, in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, according to jazzblog.ca and CBC News...
Harlem jazz club, once home of Renaissance poets, to close this month
According to the New York Amsterdam News, The Lenox Lounge, located on Lenox Avenue between 124th & 125th street which has served as a venue for jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, will serve its last drink at the end of the year, marking the end of an era in Harlem.
All that jazz: A review of Mandy Sayer's 'Love in the Years of Lunacy'
REVIEW - Set in Australia in 1942, in the thick of World War II, 'Lunacy' centers on the interracial love story between Pearl -- a young, white Australian woman who plays the saxophone in an all-girl jazz band -- and James, a black American GI...
Lionel Batiste honored with 'standing wake' in New Orleans
The late Treme brass band drummer Lionel Batiste's family and friends decided to celebrate him in death, the way that he was in life...
