For Black New Orleans, these funeral second lines, sometimes called jazz funerals by observers ... version of the gospel hymn “Just a Closer Walk with Thee.” When asked which hymns he prefers ...

He was kind enough to let me join the quartet for a couple of songs at SF Jazz, which was really wonderful. But the juxtaposition of these two shows, side by side, illustrated just how different ...

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that he's most likely not going to walk, I just burst into tears," said Nicole Taylor, Ryan's mother. The Norwood High School graduation ceremony video shows an auditorium filled with loud cheers ...

This past weekend, when the great jazz pianist Randy Weston died at 92, the online and media reaction was barely noticeable. That stood in sharp contrast to the vast mourning for Aretha Franklin ...

Music will fill the streets of Rochester starting Friday as the International Jazz Festival returns, featuring a stage that ...

“This is not just a party,” Ashley Smith, board president of Capital Pride Alliance. “This is a rally for our lives.” Smith acknowledged that international attendance numbers for the bi ...

For Edgar, paying attention to jazz, giving it a chance, means opening ourselves to an art form that carries within itself the gospel of hope. To attend to it is to draw close to the origin of ...

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I like to say that John is the closest I can get to my record collection. I mean he’s played with everyone—the Who’s Who of jazz history. "Just Friends" was an ideal choice to get the party started, ...