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 ...

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 ...

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Musicians of the 2024-25 Sphinx Virtuosi of the Sphinx Organization. The ensemble's mission is to increase the visibility of Black and Latino classical musicians. The Michigan State University Wharton ...

It’s instantly apparent from the opening moments of “Jubilee” what this work, created and directed by Tazewell Thompson and having its world premiere at Seattle Opera, honors. The rousing overture has ...

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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 ...