Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the ...

Logical, but wrong, since Marsalis’ first band of note as a teenager, The Creators, was a funk and R&B band ... and 18 when he joined Art Blakey’s fabled band, The Jazz Messengers.

Mixed in the middle of all of that was Soul Coughing, a band that is more easily describable by its parts than its whole. Imagine a beat poet fronting a band made up of an upright jazz bassist ...

I remember Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” as a reflection of your whole being. For some, songs are a soul path, heard ...

The Roots, Rilo Kiley, Soccer Mommy, Femi Kuti and Marcus Miller will perform at the 2025 season of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage ...

Dulwich Festival, from 9 to 18 May, promises a full and enriching arts programme for 2025, with opportunities for you ...

Spectrum of Spring”: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, May 7-11, at the Lincoln Park Conservatory, 2391 N. Stockton ...

Atlanta-born jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams arranged music for greats like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Cab Calloway ...

I’m releasing the second album with my other “band” SunYears in late summer/early fall ... tropicália), different strands of African pop and funk, Indian music, jazz, blues, reggae, classical, chanson ...