Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, which recently launched a $35 ...

certain characteristics found in jazz do have their roots in much earlier musical traditions. Call and response, improvisation, the appropriation and reinvention of elements from Western art music: ...

Back to top What are the features of jazz and blues music? Call and response is a common feature of jazz and blues music. It's like a conversation between the musicians. In blues music ...

In the 1950s Paris is the capital of the liberation of the arts and music A jazz audition brings together two rival musicians who will try to impress the jury ...

New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. found himself at the center of another controversy — this time after being ...

There is no jazz, there is no America. Without that call and response, they must always be, as Wynton Marsalis once said of our democracy, “in swing.” ...