It is safe to say that the stage of Zellerbach Hall at the University of California at Berkeley has never witnessed a spectacle to compare to Friday evening's extravaganza. "Kusum Africa" recruited 54 ...
No band is more aptly named than Randy Weston’s African Rhythms Sextet. The African influence is apparent. Weston himself has been described as a griot: a traveling musician-historian with an intimate ...
The Baltimore Rhythm Festival returned to Guilford Avenue to celebrate African culture with a day of performances, workshops and food. The event is hosted by Jamaal “Black Root” Collier and features ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Also in celebration of Black History Month, the African Art Exhibit "Power ...
The Djembe is a popular West African drum, known for its versatility and expressive sound. The Djembe rhythm is ...
Randy Weston’s relentless advocacy for African music and culture has defined his storied jazz career. This weekend, the renowned jazz pianist, who first set foot on the continent nearly 40 years ago, ...
Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...
One of four themed, double-CD compilations from the Blue Note vaults released in the same month—the others are New York Is Our Home (dealing with emergent hard bop), The Funk Jazz Brothers (early ...
(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...
Everglades High School students and professional musicians will join forces to showcase iconic Jamaican musicians and artists from around the world in "Rhythms of Africa: Music Around The World 2022," ...
No musician has been more devoted to exploring the connection between Afro-American classical music (jazz) and the ancestral spirits and rhythms of the African continent than Randy Weston. The ...