And the set list took a lot of thought. "We're playing 20 tunes, and all of these tunes are tunes that have been performed by ...

On Friday, Cleo Laine's death was confirmed by the Stables, a British arts center that she founded with her late husband, ...

Elana Casey, the new associate director of the Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is new to ...

Cleo Laine, considered by many to be the U.K.’s preeminent jazz singer, and an accomplished theater actress in her home ...

I don’t consider myself a jazz singer… I’m a singer of songs,” said the vocal star, who won a Grammy in the Best Female Jazz ...

In my journalism career traveling throughout Lake and Porter counties, I’ve always been fascinated by a nod to our farm ...

Born in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn, McClain grew up tickling the ivories and belting out ballads — performing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and singing with the All-City Schools Choir.

Colorado jazz took root in Denver’s storied Five Points neighborhood in the 1930s, where legends like Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie lit up the smoky clubs along Welton Street for ...

Musician was a fixture in the Montreal and Toronto jazz scenes, playing in historic clubs and mentoring younger artists ...

The “Queen Bey” pays tribute to a local Queen during her record-setting “Cowboy Carter” world tour. Queen Esther Marrow, 84, ...

Jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, famous for her huge vocal range and wide musical repertoire, has died at the age of 97. In a ...

Duke Ellington’s birth certificate, Frederick Douglass’s will, and other documents in the DC archives are in a building that once was a stable.