Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

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.

The River Road African American Museum in the historic district of Donaldsonville celebrates three decades of preserving ...

For all intents and purposes, Paul Simon probably should not have made Graceland when he did. The album took direct ...

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way ...

It was the moment Gladys and Vernon Presley had been waiting for. She was set to give birth to the couple’s first child in ...

One tier houses an African-American pianist, Coalhouse Walker, and his sweetheart, Sarah. Another shows the life of Mother and Father, “an upper-middle-class” WASP family, and still another ...

After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...

The trumpeter’s latest recording is inspired by Julius Eastman’s idea of ‘organic music’ and the complexities of African-American daily life ...

Stewart Universal Presentation banjo, included in the research files of the Old Town School of Folk Music Banjo Exhibition ...

After a long week at work, a sophisticated evening with jazz is one of the best ways to wind down with the best in town.