In 1963, legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald sat down for an interview with her friend and popular New York radio…
In 1966, jazz singer-composer-pianist Nina Simone wrote the song “Four Women” in response to the bombing of the 16th Street…
The “Black is Beautiful” movement was sparked by photographer Kwame Brathwaite and a group of creatives at a 1962 Harlem…
After the four long years since Hozier’s last album, Wasteland,Baby!, he has finally returned with a new EP titled Eat Your Young, set to release later this month.
This holiday season fast approaches, and with it, a whole slur of Christmas music. While the classic “Deck the Halls”…
When I listen to “Mingus Ah Um”, I rarely consider the many people, events, and pieces that form this magnificent puzzle. I instead always see a pathway lined with naked trees and carpeted with orange and brown leaves stirring with the breeze, and Charles Mingus never fails to engross me in his wonderful, autumnal world. Released in October of 1959, “Mingus Ah Um” plays like fall weather. It can turn from a gentle, relaxing breeze, to a whipping, howling gale in an instant, and Charles Mingus isn’t afraid to place those two sides together in stark contrast…