After a devastating fire, the NYC home of this jazz legend is being demolished!

He began studying the guitar at age 12, concentrating on jazz under the aegis of Harlem-based guitar instructor Jimmy Carter. A 16-year-old prodigy at the High School of Music and Art (now known as ...

Marjorie Eliot has been hosting jazz concerts in her Harlem apartment for 30 years. We went to check out the music scene in ...

That year, Art Kane photographed 57 jazz musicians at East 126th Street for Esquire magazine. (The photograph became the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary A Great Day in Harlem.

This April, at the National Museum of American History, we’re celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month! Check out the calendar to ...

Bass player Anthony Tidd is the curator of this year’s jazz festival, which opens Wednesday, June 4, and runs through Sunday, ...

"There was never a Harlem like the Harlem of last ... On October 1, 1941, a group of musicians recorded "King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)." Jazz pianist and band leader Count Basie wrote the music ...

In homage to “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith, Mayfield delivered a performance of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” that was as ...

His regiment of Harlem musicians, including Sissle, shipped out to fight in France in 1917. As a marching band, the 369th Infantry Regiment is credited with introducing jazz to the continent that ...