Gil Scott-Heron is a tall calm singer. He smiles lightly from off stage and cocks his head. The sell-out crowd of blacks and whites in their 20s is on its feet calling for an encore. The audience is ...

How this ancient instrument played its way into popular American Music. By John White, Lynn Levy, Diane Wong and Giovanni Russonello The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it ...

What does it take to be a griot? According to the dictionary, griots are a 'member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or ...

Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology delves deep into Scott-Heron's artistic genius, highlighting his innovative fusion of jazz, blues, and spoken word. Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology shares the life and music of ...

Manhattan: It’s incomprehensible to me that in listing the most prominent figures in the history of hip hop/rap, Leonard Greene’s Aug. 11 column “Fresh acclaim for old-school heroes who created art ...

Modern music owes a lot to the day in 1969 when 17-year-old pianist and composer Brian Jackson was introduced to a fellow student at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University – a 19-year-old published poet, ...