“Bach? Beethoven? We’ve got better,” Mandela once said of the musician who just turned 90.
Increasingly and with growing momentum, right up until he died at the young age of 55 in 2018, Roy Hargrove was a standard bearer for a new kind of African American jazz. The recipe embraced a variety ...
But even more than his own albums, Jones will be familiar to listeners across decades of popular music, for his work as a producer and arranger with legendary artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Barry ...
We take a look at the phenomenal Phil Schaap Jazz Collection, recently arrived at the university’s Blair School of Music, and ...
I appreciate being able to stand on their shoulders. Jazz music comes out of the African-American community. A lot of the people who participated in jazz, when it was coming to the mainstream ...
It comprises over 61 works by 34 modern and contemporary artists who showcase the convergence of these genres through a ...
Quincy Delight Jones Jr., an American record producer and songwriter, has passed away at the age of 91.Jones, who was also a ...