New Orleans' Tank and the Bangas won its first Grammy on Sunday, bringing home the Best Spoken Word Poetry Album award for ...

With Valentine’s Day coming up, take that special someone to hear some great jazz. We can’t promise you romance; but whether ...

Charlie Gurke, a baritone saxophone specialist who also plays tenor and alto, is the youngest member of the sextet and latest ...

This February at the museum, we're celebrating a new season of the podcast, commemorating Black History Month, and listening ...

Weedie Braimah is a djembefola (a master of the djembe drum), and a force of nature. Born in Ghana and raised in East St. Louis by two world-class drummers, his father Ghanaian and his mother American ...

Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, Ittetsu Nasuda is a distinguished jazz pianist based in New York City whose exploration of contemporary and Afro- Cuban jazz and his overall affinity for the Latin jazz ...

The last original member of the Band died this week at 87 ... Hudson hadn’t stepped foot on the Big Pink grounds since the Sixties. But the owners weren’t around that day, and he didn ...

Cuban officials on Thursday freed a prominent opposition activist, a last-minute diplomatic change in fortunes for the Biden administration which had sought his release but long seemed unable to ...

In 1969, Osei co-founded the pioneering Afro-Rock group Osibisa alongside fellow Ghanaian musicians Sol Amarfio and Mac Tontoh. The band’s name, Osibisa, comes from a word in the Fante language, ...

Ghanaian music legend and saxophonist Teddy Osei, who founded the Afro-rock band Osibisa ... Osibisa's fusion of Afrocentric sounds with rock, soul, jazz, and funk put them on the global music ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Cuban and American flags fly in the wind outside the American embassy in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan.14, 2025 ...

Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol, he shared in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday. In anticipation of the coming U.S ...