jazz

Nat King Cole’s often overlooked role in the Civil Rights Movement

‘I can make a band play like a singer sings’: Quincy Jones shaped our listening for seven decades

Beyoncé becomes most nominated artist in Grammy history

Quincy Jones mastered the art of arrangement, transforming simple tunes into epic soundscapes

Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering

Coming In Hot: These Afrobeats stars are set to light up the summer

Brain scans of Philly jazz musicians reveal secrets to reaching creative flow

George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot

Marlena Shaw (RIP/Bio/Music)

Baker’s Keyboard Lounge still thriving in Detroit