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 ...

Jazz club Blues Alley celebrates its 60th anniversary with the return of big-name acts, straight-ahead jazz, and up-and-comer concerts.

In conjunction with our January look back at the past year in world music, this visit to the Savannah Music Festival features selections from three of our favorite shows of the past year. We’ll hear ...

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

CHECK FIRST WITH ALL VENUES BEFORE GOING NEW FEATURE This NOTEWORTHY column intends to alert people to great music they might otherwise miss, especially live performances. I go through all my sources ...

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 ...