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With delicate arrangements, the South African vocalist and pianist conveys everything from longing to ecstasy, as Niño adds light touches of percussion and production

Join in for a FREE screening of the critically acclaimed film, Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues, at the TD James Moody Jazz Festival.

Leon Morris saw jazz on the street, on stage and on exercise bikes as Melbourne seeks to put itself on the international jazz map

Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) has launched the National Automotive and Mobility Investment Company (Tasaru Mobility Investments), an investment company focused on developing local supply chain capabilities for the automotive and mobility industry. Tasaru Mobility Investments will lead strategic investments and partnerships with local and international private sector companies in Saudi Arabia.

Nicky Schrire writes: The nominees for the 29th South African Music Awards (SAMAs) - the South African music industry's awards, have been announced. The awards as a whole speak to the richness of the South African musical landscape. Expected genres like Pop and R&B stand alongside nominations for best Amapiano, Gqom, Afrikaans Contemporary Music, and…

A run of late-summer concerts—one presented by Jazzmobile, the others comprising the main events in the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival—showed again the power and primacy of remembrance in finding a way forward.

A new American Masters documentary, 'The Drum Also Waltzes' is a worthy celebration of jazz great Max Roach's life and music.

I cannot believe it, but today, I edit the first edition of Volume 4 of the DM168 weekly newspaper after I was asked to edit it by my editor-in-chief, Branko Brkic, in the early part of 2020.

Occasionally the music gods can loop your past into your present in a way you could never have anticipated. One of those impossible moments happened at the end of May when I heard South African producer Fka Mash’s remix of Everything But The Girl’s Caution To The Wind.

Picks for Aug. 31-Sept. 3 includes tour stops by Dusk, The Tillers and Magic City Hippies; Labor Day weekend fests Paoli Art in the Park and Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw.