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The Moroccan city of Tangiers, which has a long history as a haven of inspiration for American jazz musicians, will host UNESCO's International Jazz Day for the first time on Tuesday.Over the last century, jazz greats such as Randy Weston, Idrees Sulieman and Max Roach all crossed the Atlantic to play and record music in the North African port city, perched on the edge of the Strait of Gibraltar."The city has had a fascinating power of attraction on a wave of intellectuals and musician...

The Moroccan city of Tangiers, which has a long history as a haven of inspiration for American jazz musicians, will host UNESCO's International Jazz Day for the first time on Tuesday. Over the last century, jazz greats such as Randy Weston, Idrees Sulieman and Max Roach all crossed the Atlantic to play and record music in the North African port city, perched on the edge of the Strait of Gibraltar. "The city has had a fascinating power of attraction on a wave of intellectuals and musici...

TANGIERS: The Moroccan city of Tangiers, which has a long history as a haven of inspiration for American jazz...

Michael Cuscuna, who brought an artist’s level of devotion and a scientist’s attention to detail to the work of exhuming and producing archi

The annual Thin Line Festival this weekend in Denton includes documentaries, music, and photography, but I’m most excited about the movies screening completely free and primarily at Campus Theatre (214 W Hickory St, Denton, 940-382-1915, free tix at ThinLine.us). Here are some of the titles you can see there now thru

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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born on April 29, 1899 in Washington, DC to James Edward "J.E." Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Elli...

SPONSORED Select films by the 2024 Trailblazer Award recipient will stream free during BPM’s PitchBLACK season. The Trailblazer honor is one of six awards being presented at PitchBLACK, for a total of $610,000. Every spring, since 2021, Black Public Media has presented a Trailblazer Award during its annual PitchBLACK Forum & Awards event. This year, the […]

A jazz archaeologist before it became fashionable, Cuscuna was famed for unearthing overlooked Blue Note material and founding Mosaic Records

With bebop-rooted living legends such as drummer Roy Haynes, saxophonist Sonny Rollins and pianist Herbie Hancock in their 80s and 90s, the spring edition of the Exit Zero Jazz Festival has a focus on artists age 50 and younger and those whose careers started in the 1990s or more recently.