Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Max Roach’s unerring sense of time, dynamic interplay and melodic invention gave drum virtuosity another ...

The events surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo’s declaration of independence and the subsequent assassination of prime minister Patrice Lumumba are laid out with cool precision to a ...

Inside the iconic DJ's annual retreat, where music legends and legends-in-the-making spend three days bonding at his Delaware ...

United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the ...

"It isn't just about jazz, it is jazz." Ready for a journey back in time? Kino Lorber has debuted an official US trailer for the acclaimed musical documentary film titled Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, ...

The Greater Middletown Concert Association is bringing the Frank Varela Trio to the Wadsworth Mansion on Tuesday, and an ...

Four students from Norwalk, Lincoln and ADM high schools are nominated to be next week's Des Moines Register Student of the ...

Documentary 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat' centers on how jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong were used by the CIA to deflect ...

Dee Dee Bridgewater returns to East Lansing after a storied career that has taken her around the world as a jazz ...

Maximillian (Max) Roach, a senior at Abraham Lincoln High School in Des Moines, recently qualified as a National Merit Semifinalist. In addition to participating in STEM competitions, Max is the ...

Duke Ellington is at rest there, near to Miles Davis, Jackie McLean, Frankie Manning, Max Roach and Lionel Hampton. Many of these stars have unique monuments. Ellington chose a spot under a ...

Born Sept. 27, 1924, Powell helped set the style for jazz piano after WWII. While earlier pianists played busy bass patterns, he helped establish a more fragmented, punctuating role for the left hand.