In a jazz career that has spanned more than 30 years, Reeves has created 18 recordings and won five Grammy Awards.
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Rejecting Ageism: How 55-Year-Old Belinda Becker Became a DJ | The Iconic
“It’s as if the older you get, the less you are revered or respected. That doesn’t make sense to me. It should be the opposite.”
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Marian Anderson: A Voice That Shattered Barriers | Philadelphia Magazine
Her powerful singing changed the world, and it all started downtown.
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Meshell Ndegeocello Previews New Covers LP With Prince Song | Rolling Stone
Hear singer-songwriter’s “Sometimes It Snows in April” and Force MDs’ “Tender Love” from new ‘Ventriloquism’ album.
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Poet And Activist Keorapetse Kgositsile, Who Celebrated Black Arts, Dead At 79 | Huffington Post
The acclaimed academic was also the father of rapper Earl Sweatshirt.
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Five 2017 reissued albums by Black artists | New York Amsterdam News
As 2017 comes to an end, it is important to reflect on the re-emergence of great music of the past, as well as celebrating new music that was released this year.
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Black Artists Proclaim The Right To Rock In The Age Of Streaming Music | Newsweek
Over three decades ago, music critic Greg Tate co-founded the Black Rock Coalition (BRC), an organization dedicated to both promoting black rock bands and righting a historic wrong.
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Pharrell Williams: ‘It rains and they shoot black people’ | The Guardian
N.E.R.D are back with a politically charged new album featuring Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Ed Sheeran and cosmic synths.
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New Jimi Hendrix Album with Unreleased Songs Coming in March | AFRO
NEW YORK (AP) — Unreleased songs recorded by Jimi Hendrix between 1968 and 1970 will be released next year.
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For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition | The New York Times
It has been a period of painful revelation and reckoning for women in the workplace across the country, and the same was true for jazz. But 2017 also felt like a moment of progress.
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