The women-led East End Jazz will celebrate women’s history month with a concert Friday night at the Jamesport Meeting House.

In 1954, Mary Lou Williams was feeling burnt out. The pianist had been one of the true jazz modernists, pushing the boundaries at every turn. She was a mentor to the beboppers, she wrote one of ...

Next Jazz Legacy has revealed the eight emerging improvisers in jazz that make up its 2025 cohort. Learn more about the color ...

Among the game changers who overcame systemic roadblocks, Mary Lou Williams, Marian McPartland, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Nina Simone will be profiled. We’ll also be featuring todays’ most ...

Tonight on the Night Train – some Rufus Harley and an Unusual Instruments in Jazz Special for Bagpipes Day; music from March Featured Artist James Moody; bluegrass jazz from our Featured New Release ...

He’ll oversee another student concert on March 6, this one focused on boogie-woogie pieces by the likes of Mary Lou Williams and Count Basie. “I always use NEC as a kind of a lab, to try some ...

East End Jazz will present a special concert event with the Women in Jazz All-Star Band, in honor of Women’s History Month at ...

Strayhorn (1915-1967), an openly gay Black man, was "one of the preeminent geniuses in jazz history" but "lived much of his public life in the shadow of his mentor and collaborator Duke Ellington," ...

Party’s reaction to death of former IRA man Bik McFarlane sends unambiguous message to every member of An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald. Photo ...

supported tours to Colombia and Togo and Benin in West Africa. She was also selected as one of five female jazz pianists invited to participate in the inaugural Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz ...

If there’s one woman who is basically the champion of bringing jazz to Milford, it is renown vocalist and music producer Amy ...

M. Sanford “Sandy” Hodges passed away in a local hospital on March 18, 2025, due to complications from pneumonia surrounded ...