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.

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

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 ...

The death of Osibisa’s charismatic bandleader Teddy Osei is the end of an era for a generation that broke the barriers for ...

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

Set in the early 1900s, the musical follows the stories of three families in New York City: the struggling Jewish immigrant Tateh, African American pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. and the privileged ...

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 ...