When Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland released its much-anticipated 10-year anniversary CD last month, local jazz aficionados were outraged that no African American musicians were included. The ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

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.

Additionally, there will be a display about African American jazz music in the Music Library itself (Sallee Hall 108) featuring books, scores, and recordings. Other materials about jazz music are ...

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