With two sets a night through Saturday 3/22, Cyrille Aimée and her Guitar Heroes may be your jazz heroes this week with their strong show at Birdland.

Elkie Brooks has been a rock, blues and jazz vocalist since the 1960s, and is best remembered alongside Robert Palmer in ...

Consider that the fabled edifice on 125 th Street in Harlem has for more than 90 years has been the ne ... Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, B.B. King and Sam Cooke are but a few of the legends whose ...

While his early work leaned heavily on pianos and gospel music, guitars are prominent on Sunset Black. Smooth, jazz-inflected R&B riffs inspired by the likes of Beyoncé and Jazmine Sullivan stand tall ...

Teams from around the world will debut works of animated storytelling, creating the illusion that the Paramount architecture ...

Every week in March, we're pinpointing distinct moments of every year from the past 100 years, a quarter century at a time ... The song will become an emblem of the World War II era. 1944: Ella ...

The six range in experience, with the most senior being Carmen Bradford, who has been singing with the Count Basie orchestra for almost 40 years — and who really ... up with a rather brilliant homage ...

Novelist Toni Morrison once said, “All good art is political. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by ...

Jones, who died in November at age 91, produced the movie and also wrote the score for the film, which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards at the 1986 ceremony ...

When Benny was 10 years old, his father sent him to study music at Kehelah ... After launching the careers of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan, Webb succumbed to spinal tuberculosis in 1939, at age 34 ...

and by the early '50s, leaders were vying for his services. Haynes left Miles Davis to join Charlie Parker. He did a season backing Ella Fitzgerald, then five years with the even more acrobatic ...

The Icelandic 25-year-old (pronounced Lay-vey, full name Laufey Lin Bing Jonsdottir) draws inspiration from Ella Fitzgerald recordings ... piano and cello at an early age, she veered toward ...