Cann knows that many of the names on this program are unknown, but she hopes Chicago audiences will give it a chance.

I received in the mail a CD from Germany. Titled “Transfigured Tchaikovsky,” the recording features 16 piano transcriptions ...

The group will hold its 14th annual benefit concert Feb. 1-2 at East Palo Alto's Eastside College Preparatory School.

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...

Chatham Community Library presents the "African American Musicians of North Carolina" exhibit, free to the public.

“Pianist and composer George Walker was definitely the greatest of the composers.” Walker (1922-2018) was the first African American concert pianist to perform as soloist with the great American ...

Most black urban musicians practiced their trade in less formal settings. African American fiddlers were popular fixtures in dance halls, where they spun out the jigs and reels that kept white ...