When Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland released its much-anticipated 10-year anniversary CD last month, local jazz aficionados were outraged that no African American musicians were included. The ...

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Since the Harlem Renaissance, African-American musicians have portrayed black history as extended musical works. Jazz is full of such long-form compositions. Hear five examples from composers such ...

Jazz may be the first thing that comes to mind when we think of the contributions African-Americans have made to music. But the Gateways Musical Festival highlights African-Americans' classical past.

In the 1950s and early 60s, as many African nations shook off their colonial mantles, African-Americans rallied behind their own civil-rights and black-nationalist movements. Jazz came to serve as ...

But for some African American musicians, the music called jazz is a reminder of an oppressive and racist society and restrictions on their artistic visions. “Now, jazz is celebrated as America’s ...

African Americans in Jazz. ... (Sallee Hall 108) featuring books, scores, and recordings. Other materials about jazz music are available on the University Libraries' database page. For more ...

It has been an article of faith among jazz lovers since the swing era: Jazz is America`s music. It was born here and evolved here, the creation of African-American artists. All the worthwhile ...

The influence of Islam on African American jazz musicians post-WWII and the influence of those musicians in the spread of Islam in American cities are interrelated topics that, broadly speaking, are ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers.