As a teenager in 1950s San Francisco, she had been on the brink of a singing career — just like Johnny Mathis, who was two ...

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born Oct. 21, 1917 in South Carolina, the youngest of nine children of Lottie and James ...

Richard Linklater’s broadway chamber piece looks back to a lost time and mourns a lost soul – Berlin Film Festival ...

George Gershwin called one of his early classic songs, first created by Fred and Adele Astaire, “Fascinating Rhythm”. It was ...

Feb. 21, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, ...

Misha Berson, theater critic for The Seattle Times for 25 years and a passionate advocate for the performing arts in Seattle and beyond, died Thursday at her Seattle home. She was 74.

An organization has recorded a profanity free hip-hop album at an Oakland studio. They say the Black youth of Oakland are ...

Muddy Waters is known as the father of the blues, and in 1969, he got together to record one of the finest albums of his career with some of his musical sons.

From Theresa Caputo to Amy and Joey and our unmistakable accent, Long Island has been the source of innumerable "SNL" gags ...

One of the longest-performing and most far-out jazz outfits ever seen, on this planet at least, is coming to Australia.

Award-winning singer/songwriter Sue Matsuki celebrates the life and music of jazz icon and American treasure, Irene Kral, ...

Marriott's regular Friday quartet will back up the dueling trumpets, Rick Mandyck on piano, Phil Sparks on bass ... are now mining the music of the late 1950s and '60s, the birth of what we think of ...