Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

Florence Price weaves African American spirituals, folk melodies, and classical traditions into a work full of warmth, vitality, and radiant beauty. Hear her Symphony No. 1 tonight on 91.1, 107.5 and ...

In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites American ...

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The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even... In July 1913, friends of the African British ...

Coleridge-Taylor was also deeply interested in African American musical themes, and his body of solo instrumental and chamber works to this end became prized by Black American classical musicians. "I ...