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Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation President Chris Collins and artist Brittini Ward, who created this year’s official Jazz Festival poster, sit down with host Stephen Henderson to preview this ...
The Black Art Jazz Collective came together in 2013, with saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, trombonist James Burton III, pianist Xavier Davis, bassist Dwayne Burno, and drummer ...
The 2024 poster is a breakthrough for the Jazz Fest series. Before this year, the last time a woman designed the popular souvenir was 33 years ago in 1991, when Patti Harris produced an abstract ...
Art & Soul event celebrates Black History with jazz by: Justin Kollar Posted: Feb 24, 2023 / 10:17 AM EST Updated: Feb 24, 2023 / 10:17 AM EST ...
The 2023 Detroit Jazz Festival is here. Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation President Chris Collins talks about world-class Detroit musicians performing at this year’s festival, and 2023 poster ...
Praise is pouring in for the inaugural Jazz Music Awards, which had its broadcast premiere on Jan 1, 2024, on PBS Passport.
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 ...
Album Description The five songs on Sara Filipova's EP "Black and White Café" draw liberally from her experience in R&B, jazz, and classical music, but are closer in spirit to great singer-songwriters ...