But jazz wasn’t just mixing musical genres—it also mixed races. Decades before Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, Black musicians were fighting discrimination and ...

Every year, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation throws a concert and panel discussion as part of its annual conference. It's notable not only as a musical event — this year's show features ...

An artist whose origins are associated with the 1960s free-jazz movement, clarinetist John Carter went on to write an extended musical history of the African-American experience in a five-album suite.

In the Black community, jazz is more than just music. "During a period of racial segregation, African American musicians really found their place in jazz. They found freedom in jazz," Evans said.

If the African-American cultural legacy is music to your soul, the ethereal sounds of Nicole Mitchell?s Black Earth Ensemble will surely play your tune. African-American jazz to juice up 20th ...

Portland Jazz Festival to explore music as meeting place of Jewish and African-American cultures . Updated: Sep. 22, 2010, 9:39 p.m.

Jazz is deeply rooted in Paris's modern culture, thanks to African American musicians. The City of Lights holds dozens of large jazz festivals every year, and the Due des Lombards club is ...

African-American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor Lionel Hampton, Jazz musician Ziggy Elman and a Jazz orchestra playing instruments and singing, 1945.