One of the world’s most respected cultural events — Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival — will soon make its African debut ...

Africa's music festival landscape has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, and as we sit here , it's impossible to ...

While there are those who place flowers upon graves to honour the dead, others dust off the archives to reissue the music of an artist lost to time. Pianist Gideon Nxumalo, who died in 1970, was ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Duke Ellington, a giant in jazz history, was more than just a composer and bandleader—he was a cultural architect whose music told the stories of Black excellence, struggle, and ...

The Grammy Awards recognize all sorts of rising artists, but the Grammys also spotlight styles or subgenres or entire fields of music that are breaking through by forming new award categories. This ...

The following transcript is from the interview originally broadcast on Saturday, February 18th, 2023 on WKAR's "A Groove Supreme" with host Michael Stratton. Vuyo Sotashe is a South African Jazz ...

Roughly a month ago, Jazz at Lincoln Center launched its 2025-26 season with a new work by a major American composer and musician conceived in the agreed-upon general style of African music. This past ...

She’s the first African woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award in a jazz category. She is also the first Rwandan or Ugandan to ever be nominated for a Grammy. And she is the first East African actor ...

Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria As a researcher who documents historical and current South African jazz and popular music, I believe Mdunyelwa merits ...