Ranging Across Time and Scale, V. Shayne Frederick Holds Office Hours at Uncle Bobbie’s
MusiQ Department Artist Vince Anthony Debuts “Hurricane” Music Video
MusiQology Rx Fundraiser for One Art Community Center
Beyoncé’s Homecoming Film Preserves and Reveres Black History
Why Country Music is So Scared of Black People
DaMaris B. Hill’s New Book is a Powerful, Wondrous Thing
(FREE SHOW) Dr. Guy Performs with Ursula Rucker this Thursday, March 14, at World Café
Hide/Melt/Ghost’s Harlem Debut is a Major Moment for Black Music Scholarship & Performance
The Time Stevie Wonder Taught White Surfers how to Dance
Music Lives with MusiQology Events in Virginia and Philadelphia
The 2019 GRAMMYs: Streaks Broken, Questions Unanswered
The 2019 MusiQology GRAMMYs Preview
Ursula Rucker Talks Womanhood and Courage in Art
I Remember Roy: Remembering Roy Hargrove
Save the Date!: Dr. Guy brings Hide/Melt/Ghost to Harlem Stage on March 9!
Happy Holidays from MusiQology!
The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process
We asked ethnomusicologist Aja Burrell Wood (@alwaysAja) to talk to us about jazz master drummer Terri Lyne Carrington’s latest offering: The Mosaic Project: LOVE and SOUL. So we suggest you read Aja’s thoughtful response and then press play on the album at the bottom. Please check out Aja’s...
Recently we sang the praises of LA-born and bred tenor saxophonist, Kamasi Washington and his debut release, The Epic. Now we recommend that you take some time to watch this powerful performance that is sure to leave you optimistic about the present, and future of jazz, on both coasts!
New music that is really NEW. Jazz is not dead. It is alive and well. Live musicianship and song writing is alive and well. Los Angeles has so many hidden local music treasures. Though you’ve seen and heard them play with other groups in other genres all around the world, musicians such as Kamasi...
By Fredara M. Hadley, Managing Editor, Musiqology (@fredaraMareva) Today we celebrate Eleanor Fagan’s 100th Birthday. Eleanor Fagan is known to most of us as “Billie Holiday” or as “Lady Day” – the nickname that saxophonist Lester Young gave her. It feels like everyone...
By Justin Desmangles Two days before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Coltrane entered Van Gelder’s home studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, the same one in which he would later create A Love Supreme a year later, to record his composition, Alabama. An interpretation of Rev. Martin Luther...
ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS OF ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY OR ANY OTHER By Justin Desmangles One of the great works of art of the 20th century or any other, John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme stands as a monument to the revival and resurrection of the human spirit in search of freedom, self-determination, and […]
The music world lost a giant of a musician and mentor last week. His playing was an amalgam of jazz styles–all joyful and beautiful executed. Clark Terry never sacrificed feeling with his stunning technique. He will be missed. Please read more about Clark Terry’s legacy.
We’re excited about trombonist, Jeff Bradshaw‘s, March 31st album release, Home. If his name sounds familiar to you, it might be because you remember when he teamed up with fellow Philadelphia native, Jill Scott, for the jam, “Slide.” The lineup for this album features so...
We want to give some special attention to this fantastic performance featuring Dianne Reeves and Norm Lewis singing the Gershwin songbook at Lincoln Center this past New Years Eve. While we’re at it, we want to express “Congratulations” to Ms. Reeves for her 2015 Grammy nomination for Best...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival: God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment...
