After three decades soaring as an unorthodox visionary, Pharrell Williams is prepared to share the narrative behind his ...

The goal of band teacher Mathew Schick is to eventually have a logo for each of these factions, with this new collaborative design representing Crescenta Valley High School Instrumental Music as a ...

Soundcheck Columnist The documentary “The Best of the Best: Jazz From Detroit” certainly lives up to its title as it ...

Igmar Thomas has joined forces with Talib Kweli for Revive Big Band's newest offering "Thelonius", which contains a two-part suite, paying homage to J Dilla and Thelonious Monk. Artistic director, ...

If you are looking for a hub of Black culture, then look no further than Houston. The hometown of icons, like Beyoncé, Megan ...

A solo exhibition of the poet and visual artist Ted Joans is a mostly fitting tribute to an artistic visionary.

With his new album 1978, the year of his birth, guitarist and singer José James updates classic soul in a live KNKX Studio ...

DR Clive Chijioke Nwonka is the vibrantly intelligent author behind the recently published book Black Arsenal. Ten years in ...

What follows is an abbreviated Q& A with Nwonka (click on the links below to see the full interview) about the creation and ...

Craft Latino’s reissue of Traigo de Todo, marking Fania Records’ 60th anniversary, breathes new life into the 1974 classic from Ismael Rivera—a seminal ...

It’s an unmatched tradition that you can’t experience anywhere but at an HBCU football stadium. For the marching band members ...

KRSON – courtesy photo I HATE TO BRAG, BUT… My wife is one helluva singer. Been at it professionally since her mid-teens. Toured Japan four times, played the Queen Mary five nights a week for five ...