The 13th annual Eastside Kings Festival is set for this weekend. More than 20 bands and artists will play across five venues ...

At the African Institute of Music, he is helping Uganda reclaim jazz on its own terms, blending ancestral rhythms with global ...

The Loft at Hermit Woods Winery & Sweet Mercy’s Kitchen will host the Wilson/Kobrenski Quartet featuring Mike Sakash & Tim Gilmore on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m.

With her lens tuned to the heartbeat of South African jazz, Vuyo Giba transforms music into memory and sound into story ...

Everyone knows how jazz, intertwined with the deeper sound of blues, emerged as the indomitable musical voice of black ...

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 ...

Joe Sheehan has traveled quite a distance — literally — since he first began taking piano lessons while growing up in Leechburg. A lifelong student of music and now a Duquesne University professor and ...

Gloria Bosman, the renowned South African jazz singer, composer, and songwriter, has died at the age of 50, leaving the music industry in grief. Her death was confirmed by the South African Music ...

On stage, South African pianist/vocalist Nduduzo Makhathini is less interested in playing music than in repairing the world, performing sonic rituals that nurture, heal and transform audiences and ...

On June 13 the sad news arrived that legendary South African drummer and composer Louis Moholo-Moholo had passed away at 85 after a long illness. Louis, “Tebogo,” Bra Louis, as he was variously and ...

Mozambique-born bassist Gito Baloi was killed yesterday morning (April 4) in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. Police say Baloi, 39, was shot in the neck as he made his way home from performing at ...