Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical ...
With Canadian summer jazz festivals featuring everything from the gospel sounds of The Sojourners and straight-ahead jazz saxophonist David Sanborn to Nigerian superstar King Sunny Ade & His African ...
The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...