The late composer, musician and bandleader Duke Ellington once said, ''I contend that the Negro is the creative voice of America, IS creative America, and it was a happy day when the first unhappy ...

Jazz is an omnivorous art form that has absorbed a succession of global influences, from Brazil and Cuba to India and ...

Since the 1930s, jazz music has had a thriving, tight-knit scene that Doucette said is a strong community today. Along with ...

JAZZ : A HISTORY OF AMERICAS MUSIC BY GEOFFREY C WARD BASED ON A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY KEN BURNS WRITTEN BY GEOFFREY C WARD WITH A PREFACE BY KEN BURNS ...

Singer Julie London was the first video vocalist. I don't mean that she was the first to appear in film. Plenty of others came before her. But she was the first to fully understand how to use the ...

Local musician brings immersive audio experience to House Street 30 with documentary screening and live performance featuring ...

French film director Bertrand Tavernier, who won international acclaim with his 1986 jazz film "Round Midnight", has died, ...

Ask me to name three feel-good films and I’ll rattle off a trio of lesser-known choices: the Ali-Foreman debacle When We Were Kings (1996), the noodle-western Tampopo(1985) and A Great Day in Harlem, ...

Recording includes samples of soundtrack music with thematic titles such as Trains, Spiritual in F, Cartoons, and Seen a few places. Each is introduced by an unnamed man. Notes copied from tape: ...