Terence Blanchard

A celebration too honor this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Amina Claudine Myers, Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard and Willard Jenkins. Watch live on Sat., April 13 at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Voting is now open to the public for select categories in the 54th NAACP Image Awards. KNKX highlights the jazz music and films among this year's nominees.

Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard is leading the movement toward inclusion of Black stories in the opera realm, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter realizes his dream with an operatic version of a classic Greek tale.

Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the Charles M. Blow memoir of the same title, is the first work by a Black composer to be staged by the Metropolitan Opera.

In honor of Black History Month, we are taking a look into the career highlights of African American artists and their contribution to the world of jazz…

Whether you prefer planes, trains or automobiles, a trip to Portland is always a good idea. That's especially true when the Rose City presents its annual…

The four drummers of The Kraken Quartet studied their instruments together at Ithaca College, but few expected the rhythm section to evolve into their own…