Eric Dozier is a self-described “itinerant blues preacher,” musician, and educator on a mission “to promote healing, justice and racial...

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In the 1950s and 1960s, Anthony Ortega, Ralph Peña, and Chuck Flores brought their own unique sounds into a jazz world that seemed to...

Today Cuppa Go begins a journey through musical forms across the globe that are central to cultural traditions. Music, as a universal...

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Selling more than 50 million records while breaking racial barriers, they are one of music history's best-loved and most influential...

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Take a break and listen to some classic Brazilian music that has circled the world and planted songs in people's minds everywhere. Bossa...

Historically, many areas of instrumental music, especially the guitar, have been heavily male-dominated. But today, these Mexican women...

The iconic king of the romantic ballad has been recording and packing concert halls for more than sixty years, and he's still going...

The 'First Lady of Song' is not only widely considered the greatest female jazz singer of all time in her own right, but her...

This is one of the hardest working musicians out there! Playing an amazing range of instruments with high-energy virtuosity, this Swedish...

Carmen McRae was one of the great jazz singers, finding the tender, warm, or heartache depth in the songs she wrote and performed. An...

Now nearly forgotten, Lovie Austin was a founding talent of the Golden Age of Jazz and leader of her own band, the Blues Serenaders,...

Among the most influential living members of Latin America’s musical avant-garde, for more than fifty years, Joaquín Orellana has been...

Ground-breaking jazz pianist, band-leader, and composer-arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi not only gave the world astonishing music, but made the...

Enjoy rare live performances of the singer and civil rights activist who has been called the most important vocalist to move freely among...

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With a voice that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said "comes along once in a millennium," Mahalia Jackson became the soundtrack of the...

Nat King Cole was perhaps the greatest combination of jazz piano and singing voice of the 20th Century. Nat King Cole - A 1-hour...

Sacred sounds and music have inspired and sustained humanity throughout time. Explore the different sacred sounds. What sonic...

A band whose members were black and white, men and women, and who broke old rules to make new music, Sly and the Family Stone still sing...

Louis Armstrong is one of the true jazz legends. Enjoy some of his earliest and rarest live performances as he was shaking up the...

Now more than ever, accepting the reality of the oneness of humanity is the first fundamental prerequisite for solving human crises....

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From Africa to Mesopotamia to Egypt to China to Europe, listen to humanity's oldest music as sung and played on instruments. Anduwa: Aka...

These historic recordings hold treasures for jazz lovers! Club Hangover Archives: 1954-1958 - 25 complete unedited half-hour broadcasts...

Remembering 'The Queen of American Folk Music.' Remembering Odetta, Voice of the Civil Rights Movement - Profile of the legendary...

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Let's celebrate a few of the ground-breaking women who left a legendary mark on Blues and Jazz music, but seem less remembered these...

Jazz is a highly expressive art form, displaying the full range of musicians’ individual personalities, and thus of their spiritual,...

Across the globe, men often appear to dominate the acoustic art of drumming and drumming performance. Closer inspection, however, reveals...

So many readers enjoyed the post with music from the choir Van Gilmer directs, that I'm giving you a second serving. Amazing Grace O Son...

Van Gilmer grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the height of Segregation. He was arrested many times for civil rights activism. His...

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