And that is Jelly Roll Morton, the jazz legend, playing "Miserere" from the opera "Il Trovatore" for Alan Lomax in 1938. Jazz, of course, is born of the African American experience and draws from ...

There seems no immediate probability that the sacrosanct wall of the Metropolitan Opera House will echo to the strident syncopations of U. S. jazz. This in spite of the fact that Otto H. Kahn, ...

Nov. 15—If you want to jazz up your weekend, you're in luck. The United States Air Force's Airmen of Note will be in Albuquerque and Rio Rancho. Or check out these other events that can't be beat. Got ...

Three different singers play the welterweight boxer Emile Griffith in Lyric Opera’s visceral production of Terence Blanchard’s 2013 jazz opera “Champion.” That’s not uncommon in biographical stories, ...

LEAVE ME ALONE!, A JAZZ OPERA BY HARVEY PEKAR AND DAN PLONSEY, TO PREMIERE AT THE OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND VIA WEBCAST ON JANUARY 31, 2009 American Splendor Icon Pekar Focuses His Sardonic ...

Thirteen years before George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess debuted on Broadway (in 1935), his one-act jazz opera Blue Monday (Opera a la Afro-American) opened and promptly closed. It calls for an ...

Latonia Moore remembers clearly the moment she fell in love with opera. She entered the University of North Texas as a jazz performance major, but a classical music requirement led her to sing in the ...

It's been a tough few weeks for the music world, with the passing of Luciano Pavarotti and jazz master Max Roach. News & Notes commentator Betty Baye, a columnist with The Courier-Journal in ...

Jazz Cartier had a huge 2015 with the release of Marauding in Paradise. Less than two weeks into the new year, Cartier appears more than ready to jump start another great year. To kick things off ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by During a break at the Royal Opera House, Aigul Akhmetshina discussed her action-packed career, “Carmen” and her mission to spread her love of opera.