It is easy to get stuck doing the same things every week but with many free possibilities for live music this week, it is easy to get out and do something. Wallace is a professor of practice in jazz ...

Jazz may have originated in New Orleans in the late 19th century, but New York City is where it expanded—physically, sonically, and culturally. By the 1920s, Harlem had become a national hub, where ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. A former journalist turned educator and author, Rhodes has spent her career around ...

MADERA, Calif. – Steve Alcala was a high school music teacher in Fresno in the 1980s when he heard a Los Angeles-based jazz band was performing at an amphitheater in town. He stopped by. And the first ...

The Sousa Band saxophone section who performed for the ensemble’s 1923-1924 tour, which included the Willow Grove performances of Sousa’s ‘An Application of Jazz Tunes.’ Frederick Bayers and James Son ...