During the 2011 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) General Conference, April 30th was proclaimed as “International Jazz Day.” According to the U.N ...

Award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis tells Katty Kay how growing up surrounded by music shaped his own journey with jazz.

The Washington Women in Jazz Festival was founded to give women and nonbinary people a place to showcase talents in an ...

God Bless the Child.” “I’ll Be Seeing You.” And of course, “Strange Fruit.” Ten writers and musicians share what they love ...

The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run nightclubs, the venues that serve alcohol and hire black musicians. These speakeasies allow whites and blacks to mingle ...

Who were the three women in the iconic 1958 photo known as "A Great Day in Harlem"? All three left their mark on the music in ...

The migration of Black musicians, arriving through King Street Station, between World War I and World War 2, began Jackson Street’s shift into a cultural melting pot. "The jazz scene really ...

Jazz pianist Donald Brown, who taught at UT for 32 years, will debut new work inspired by Harlem Renaissance artist and ...