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40 years ago civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King Jnr was assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Billie Holiday learned to sing Jazz, as a child, by listening to the recordings of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith. She possessed an innate sense of jazz phrasing.

With the death, aged 84, of baritone saxophonist Cecil Payne, on 30 November 2007, the jazz world has lost one of its most respected and creative players and composers.

Black music has always had a monumental impact on world culture. Gospel, blues, jazz, rock, soul, reggae and now hip-hop, have all had their origins in black culture.

Blues fans know Helena Arkansas as the home of KFFA Radio and the King Biscuit Time blues radio show with Sonny Payne and a great blues music festival each October.

Named after the 88 keys on a piano, The 88 is a stellar band known for their catchy and groovy tunes. Be sure to catch them on tour this spring.

Find out who belongs to the African-American Masonic group known as the Prince Hall Freemasons.

Stretching across 500 miles of the some of the most beautiful waters in the world, "The Islands of the Bahamas" are a 100,000 square mile tropical archipelago.

For fans of classic jazz music in Chicago, the choices for listening to their favorite music is rather limited. Recently, the choices are online or in the suburbs.

Woodstock was one of the defining events of the 1960s and anyone who's seen the film will remember the voice of the man who said 'don't eat the brown acid'.

The 21st Annual Bravo! Vail Valley Festival kicked off to a bold and brassy start on Wednesday, June 25 at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheatre in Vail, Colorado.

'The First Lady of Song' is known for her sweet jazz and sultry ballads, peerless vocal technique and wide vocal range.

Profiles the achievements, awards and legacy of Ella Fitzgerald, one of the greatest Black American jazz vocalists.

For Jazz Lovers, the introduction of DVD's did not make high quality Jazz Concerts any easier to get until now. The Jazz Icons DVD series is changing jazz viewing.

Typically, the initial thought, when someone mentions the midwest city that consists of areas in both Kansas and Missouri, is cows, pastors, and country music.

Randy Weston's concert at York University's Tribute Community Recital Hall was the highlight of their Black History Month celebrations.

The 3rd edition of the Luminato festival will soon takeover many areas of the Toronto landscape and is a true indicator of how hot The Toronto summer scene gets.

Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise releases their fifth studio album, a stunning CD named "Out of the Wilderness" that may be the best Soul Album of the year.

The side stages rocked at the 2009 George Wein CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival 55 as Vandermark 5 and the North Carolina Central Big Band played to enthusiastic crowds.

Jazz and Big Band music were at their best when Duke Ellington created and directed hits like "Sophisticated Lady, "Take It Easy" and "Soul Call."

Brief biography of Ralph Ellison, foremost African-American novelist, short-story writer and essayist, considered a great fiction writer.

New York Times writer Lily Koppel discovers a 75 year-old diary, leading to the story of a bygone era, a precocious young woman, a new friendship and new lives.

Toronto and the GTA have many wedding venues on Lake Ontario that provide a holiday feel to a wedding celebration, as well as a magnificent backdrop for photos.

Kansas City is an historic place filled with interesting characters and artifacts...not to mention art, science and just plain fun.

Hazel Scott was born in Trinidad, grew up in the US. She mesmerized audiences with her piano skills, married a congressman and ended up on Joe McCarthy's blacklist.

Ragtime is a musical idiom which flourished between the 1890s and 1910s. It is the only stylistic precursor of jazz for which any tangible evidence survives.

Soul Queen Restaurant located in Chicago, Illinois has been serving mouth watering soul food to local and global diners for half a century.