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LONG BEACH, California (AP) — Studio drummer Ricky Lawson, a collaborator with musicians including Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins…
SHUTESBURY, Mass. (AP) — Grammy-winning musician and composer Yusef Lateef, one of the first to incorporate world music into traditional…
NEW YORK (AP) — Foreststorn 'Chico' Hamilton, an influential jazz drummer and bandleader who was an architect of the West…
NEW YORK (AP) — Don Cheadle will play Miles Davis in a biopic the actor has long planned on the…
(AP) — In a quiet, tree-lined suburb of New York City sits an unassuming brick ranch house that many musicians…
NEW YORK (AP) — Wynton Marsalis has taken his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra all the way to China and…
theGRIO REPORT - Jazz singer Gloria Lynne, who rose to fame with her chart-topping song "I Wish You Love" in…
NEW YORK (AP) — To mark the 10th anniversary of the Louis Armstrong museum in the modest brick house where…
theGRIO SLIDESHOW - Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR) was founded six years ago by Brandice Henderson-Daniel to give designers of color…
MSNBC - Martin Bashir commemorates the life of George Duke who died on Wednesday at the age of 67.
theGRIO REPORT - In response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, many have…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Music, jazz music, is what keeps Lionel Ferbos going at the age of 102.
theGRIO REPORT - When her father created the Atlanta Jazz Festival some 36 years ago vocalist Alexandra Jackson was not…
theGRIO REPORT - This year, you wont have to go too far or spend too much to make it a…
theGRIO REPORT - Today Google is commemorating the "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald's birthday with a Google Doodle…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If there's a theme to this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, it may be…
REVIEW - The Whitney Museum of American Art exhibit, 'Blues for Smoke,' features an exciting array of works by a…
SLIDESHOW - Legendary producer and musician Quincy Jones was born 79 years ago today. Jones, known as 'The Dude' or…
DOVER, Delaware (AP) — Jazz musician Donald Byrd, a leading hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950's, died Feb. 4 in Delaware,…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans has celebrated plenty of milestones on its slow road to recovery from Hurricane Katrina,…