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
In a week where GQ Magazine tried to tell us that singer, Sam Smith, is the “New Face of Soul,” D’Angelo and The Vanguard hit the Saturday Night Live stage and delivered one of the blackest and most soulful performances we’ve seen on mainstream television in a long time. Earlier...
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...
Morgan Rhodes is a lot of things: Music lover. Music fan. DJ of the soulful underground. And Ava DuVernay’s perennial music supervisor. Last week we celebrated the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. We were glad to see so many folks take the time to check out Ava DuVernay’s latest theatrical release,...
Recently Musiqology spoke with Selma music supervisor, Morgan Rhodes (@MorganRhodes). Selma was her fourth project with director, Ava DuVernay. In this piece she speaks with Musiqology Managing Editor, Fredara M. Hadley. This time, Morgan talks with us about her work on one of our favorites, “The...
Join Guthrie Ramsey and the Musiqology family at the Blue Note April 24th! Tickets available here.
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...
For Birgitta Johnson and Treva Lindsey, Critics-At-Large I don’t remember having many TV shows that I watched obsessively after I became an adult. TV was mostly for those times when I was broke, lonely, bored or any combination of these. There was Saturday Night Live (no money/no date); the afternoon...
José James and Talia Billig created a beautiful video for his cover of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come.” I’m grateful they included me, along with folx like Robert Glasper, Feminista Jones, Rich Medina, and Spinna Dj-Vincent Williams so that I could “speak” the name...
Acclaimed rapper, Talib Kweli, is building a long lasting career. He’s one of the few artists who is weathering the changes of the music industry and continues to record and tour consistently. This is no small feat. The music industry was enjoying the last of its halcyon days when he, and fellow...
