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The jazz-funk pioneer passed away in New York City at age 84; his catalog is essential to the experience of…
Two of the jazz world's most enduring pioneers, Lou Donaldson and Roy Haynes, died within days of each other, following…
McCann died Friday in Los Angeles a week after being hospitalized with pneumonia, according to his manager, Alan Abrahams.
Kris Bowers grew up in Los Angeles, just a few minutes away from The World Stage performance space, and immersed…
There are country award shows and hip-hop award ones, Latin Grammys and beyond — so why hasn't there been a televised jazz…
Plenty of internationally known acts populate the roster for the 2023 festival, which includes current megastars like Lizzo and Ed…
Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal passed away on Sunday at age 92 after complications from prostate cancer.
He was a music professor at Southern University of New Orleans, later becoming chairman of the university's Jazz Studies Program.
Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a…
The Brooklyn-based trio’s 1993 debut album is a production masterpiece featuring that song that literally everybody knows and quotes.
The cool sounds of smooth jazz used to drive me insane, and yet now, I find myself turning to Watercolors…
Lizzo and Ed Sheeran are among the headliners at this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which takes place…
TheGrio reviews "Represent! A Night of Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Spoken Word" at Newark's NJPAC, featuring Nikki Giovanni and Black Thought.
TheGrio reviews Grammy-winning pianist Robert Glasper's monthlong residency at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club.
The inaugural Jazz Music Awards is scheduled to for Oct. 22 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.
A 1958 photograph of Black artists in Harlem will be recreated with emerging Black artists for the UK's Black History…
Tyler Perry’s latest film, A Jazzman's Blues, is, well, a better version of a Tyler Perry movie, which makes it,…
Legendary jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders has died, a representative from his music label Luaka Bop confirmed on Saturday.
Tyler Perry had high praise for the love between Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on NBC's “Today” to promote “A…
Am I still able to be fooled by a good trailer even if it comes from Tyler Perry? I think…