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February 14, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Cole's widow, Maria, saved kinescopes -- copies made by filming a TV monitor -- of the…
February 14, 2011
OPINION - Hopefully Spalding's win will encourage execs to take risks and promote artists who have talent, not just star…
February 10, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Her impressive musicianship has won her White House recital dates, praise from the likes of Stevie…
February 8, 2011
OPINION - This is not as much a matter of being a conformist as it is about giving your potential…
February 4, 2011
VIDEO - "I am very, very blessed," says Jazz Ison Sinkfield, a mother and grandmother with a story to tell...
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Trombonist Troy Andrews stepped into the spotlight last year with the release of his Grammy-nominated album, 'Backatown',…
January 20, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michelle and Barack Obama welcomed a mix of Hollywood A-listers, big business types and prominent Chinese-Americans to…
December 30, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Taylor died Tuesday of a heart attack in Manhattan, said his wife, Theodora Taylor. "He enjoyed…
December 10, 2010
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Moody is best known for his 1949 hit "Moody's Mood for Love," an interpretation of the…
December 3, 2010
VIDEO - The Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center also discussed the inspiration behind his upcoming album...
November 3, 2010
PARIS (AP) - Morrison, an Ohio native who was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931, began writing in 1970...
October 18, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Jay-Z, Nas, Gang Starr and Common share this in common: They've all sampled recordings by jazz…
October 16, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Prince says the shows will feature funk, R&B and jazz artists including Maceo Parker, Janelle Monae,…
August 18, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - He started in the late 1940s and left a rich chronicle of a musical era with…
August 15, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Lincoln made records and acted in films in the 1950s and '60s, then saw her career…
July 23, 2010
PARIS (AP) - Grammy-award winning singer Al Jarreau was in intensive care in a French hospital Friday after encountering breathing…
June 4, 2010
OPINION - Blackface is not going anywhere anytime soon...
May 17, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Jones, whose 70-year career included a stint as Ella Fitzgerald's pianist and Marilyn Monroe's accompanist when…
May 14, 2010
NEW YORK - Horne was remembered at her funeral Friday as a shy girl from Brooklyn who broke through decades…
May 10, 2010
SLIDESHOW - She once said that one of the reasons for her success was that she was "a kind of…