Blinded by glaucoma as a toddler, 5-year-old Fird Eaglin Jr. taught himself to play guitar by copying what he heard on the radio. At 12, he won a talent show at Hayes Chicken Shack by performing ...

The New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA) is set to bring Giordano Dance Chicago, America’s first jazz dance company, to New ...

Originating in New Orleans, the music was originally called “jass ... The styles of music that created jazz were blues and ...

OffBeat', the monthly magazine that has covered the music of New Orleans for the last 37 years, will cease publication at the ...

The Louisiana Music & Heritage Experience (LMHE), is a comprehensive, immersive music museum designed to preserve and ...

Horn is one of those singers who warms the soul,” a reviewer noted after Horn’s recent performance at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

1985 — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the former middleweight boxer convicted twice of a triple murder in 1966 and the hero of a ...

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), known for its musical explorations that push traditional realms.

Today in Sports, November 7 - Magic Johnson announces he has tested positive for the AIDS virus and is retiring ...

Bonnie Raitt performs on the Acura Stage during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Sunday ... Tickets are $29.50, if ...

Award-winning Lettuce trumpeter Eric Benny Bloom discusses country music, wine and comedy in free-ranging interview ...

Banjo scholar and musician Dom Flemons performs at Swallow Hill in Denver and Boulder's Chautauqua Community House, Nov. 9-10.