If you're looking to support someone that isn't a big-name coffee brand, these smaller, black-owned businesses are sure to ...

The late, great Fela Kuti is known as the "Black President" for his role as both a musical and a political leader. Now he has become the first African artist to get this Grammy honor.

In an era where music charts are dominated by electronic beats and auto-tuned vocals, one young man is boldly swimming against the tide — armed not with software, but with a saxophone and an ...

The jazz group just released an album of material by Armenian-Ethiopian composer Nerses Nalbandian, and is playing its first show in six years on Dec. 17.

A jazz quartet from Kansas City recently held three performances and a masterclass in China, as part of a symposium organized by the Edgar Snow Memorial Foundation. The Edgar Snow Memorial Foundation ...

One of Boston’s longest running local ensembles, the Either/Orchestra, is celebrating 40 years on December 17th at the Regattabar in Cambridge. The band has served as a launch pad for dozens of ...

Since the pandemic, The Aristocrat had been a reliable home base for jazz musicians all over the region. Its concert calendar featured key local players like trumpeter Mark Rapp, saxophonist Robert ...

On Nov. 9, around 200 people packed into the Signet Society for the second annual Ethio-Jazz Soiree, hosted and organized by Harvard’s Eritrean and Ethiopian Students Association (EESA). Enlivened ...

When we think of jazz, we think of instruments — saxophones, pianos, trumpets, trombones, clarinets, bass, drums, and guitars — blending in unpredictable ways to craft listening journeys fit for late ...

Bassist, composer and Jazz Night in America host Christian McBride's latest album sees the bandleader get his Grammy Award-winning big band back together to breathe new life into some classics. Today, ...

The music artist Meklit Hadero has lived in the U.S. since she left Ethiopia decades ago. (SOUNDBITE OF MEKLIT HADERO SONG, "LEFEQER ENEGEZA") MEKLIT HADERO: After the Ethiopian Revolution, there were ...