Nedelka Prescod, Gunther Schuller, and the conference at BU of African American Music in World Culture: Art as Refuge and Strength in the...

Dr. Julia SuttonThe performance of The Short Life of Barbara Monk is being dedicated tonight to the Monk family and Dr. Julia Sutton. My...

I’ll never forget the summer of 1957 at the Lenox School of Jazz when Percy Heath played a few tracks of Ornette Coleman’s first record...

7/10/18 by Ran Blake (editing by Gardiner Hartmann) I must have met Mary Lou Williams in 1952 or 1953. My parents had gone with me to...

2018, Remembering Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin, here are my thoughts… many are personal, and sifting through my memories on the...