For four decades, the USA has officially celebrated Black History Month, but efforts to honor African American history in ...

Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone are jazz legends, but in the 1960s, they were unwittingly used as decoys by the United States to deflect attention from its role in its meddling in ...

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born Oct. 21, 1917 in South Carolina, the youngest of nine children of Lottie and James ...

"The Whole World Is a Mystery" at the Carnegie Museum of Art marks the first retrospective look at Gertrude Abercrombie in ...

San Antonio jazz fans are in for one sweet weekend. Influential pianist Kenny Barron and boundary-pushing "sonic architect" ...

Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

Likewise, in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, music is at the forefront of events that aren't as well known as the Nazi's rise to ...

Various: Scarborough Jazz Festival 2024 This double CD was recorded at last year’s Scarborough Jazz Festival. CD1 runs to ...

On Feb. 9, 1961, Wichita Falls-born alto saxophonist and flutist Leo Wright appeared with Dizzy Gillespie’s quintet in ...

Coleman Mellett's widow Jeanie Bryson and album co-producer Barry Miles chat with WBGO's Doug Doyle about the new album release on February 12 ...

Queens residents can look forward to a stellar lineup of Grammy-winning talent this spring as the Kupferberg Center for the ...