Across the punk underground to jazz academia, we take a look at five artists who adopted alien alter-egos as part of their ...

In the week leading up to this year’s Iowa City Jazz Fest, The Daily Iowan spoke with Damani Phillips, a local jazz saxophonist and associate professor of African-American studies at the University of ...

The Nazis denounced jazz music as "degenerate art," despite its widespread popularity in Germany. As the Nazis clamped down on expression, groups of jazz-loving teenagers formed the Swing Youth to ...

Jazz is smooth and sweet and Chicago made it famous, taking the music that originated in New Orleans, and putting a new spin on it.

Pianist Jason Moran, curator of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, sits down with us to talk about his vision for the event and jazz as Black art.

With his year marking the 100th birthday of both John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Peter Lucas knew exactly what would be the ...

Worst World Cup city? A survey named KC worst for fan experience. Porter wouldn’t discount the critical study immediately. He thinks the study points out some glaring problems with our city that we ...

August Wilson’s celebrated play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” is on Broadway right now. But for many theater insiders, the production with the highest stakes is unfolding 1,000 miles away at St. Paul’s ...

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The documentary winners were handed out at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall on Thursday night, where Michael ...

This is more than just a rehab or redevelopment of the area,” one neighborhood leader said. “This is a reintroduction of ...