See photos from Lillias White's latest concert, celebrating the release of Lillias White – Divine Sass: A Tribute to Sarah ...

It was the first African-American-owned nightclub in New England, and Walcott was the first Black man to receive ... Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey have all performed at the ...

Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art highlights the haunting Surrealist power of the Chicago artist’s small, unflashy canvases.

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Her Demolition Doors series, for instance, draws its peculiarity from the actual salvaged wooden doors that fenced off construction sites as Chicago’s predominantly Black Hyde Park neighborhood ...

Behind her are framed photos of the jazz greats who once jammed at this legendary nightclub, including Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie ... tucked behind an ornate black gate on 52nd Street ...

Marjorie Eliot turned a family tragedy into a thriving community gathering space in Harlem for healing and reflection. “My ...

The Chicago jazz sound amounts to a sum of the city’s Black histories ... tear through Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie’s “Anthropology,” and you’ll hear a singular, steeped-in ...

When cast as an entertainer in the 1943 film “The Heat’s On,” she clashed with studio boss Harry Cohn over the shabby way the costume designer was dressing Black women in a scene.

These ensembles include Jon Faddis and his All-Star Big Band, the Kenny Barron Quartet (with Kenny Barron, Kiyoshi Kitagawa, and Jonathan Black), the Mingus Big ... Dease's incendiary arrangement of ...

As a studio musician, John has played on countless albums with artists such as B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie ...