Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West Africa — for a generation.

Ghanaian-born artist Okaidja Afroso brings an intimate, storytelling-driven performance to the Mondavi Center’s Vanderhoef ...

Ebo Taylor has died at 90. He was a world-renowned musician and composer of African highlife music, but it took decades for him to come to the U.S.

This week the Ghanian musician Ebo Taylor died at 90 years old. While he was not well known in the U.S. he was a star in Africa, and a defining force in highlife music.

Ahead of the show ’A Night in Andalusia,’ we speak to Lila Borsali to delve into the rich history of Al-Andalus, its music & ...

PROFESSORS Adeoluwa Ayokunle Okunade and Bode Omojola are illustrious Nigerian scholars who are powerfully advancing African music on the world stage.Okunade, a renowned Professor of Ethnomusicology ...

Teachers can help the origins of jazz and hip-hop come alive for students with resources that highlight these influential ...

Music therapy is an evidence-based treatment provided by trained and licensed music therapists. Goals include communication, ...

Long a collectors’ holy grail, this searching, atmospheric soundtrack recorded for Chicago’s Adler Planetarium in 1993 mixes spiritual jazz with avant-garde pan-Africanism.

The Detroit Opera is showcasing Parliament-Funkadelic in a new way. George Clinton’s and P-Funk’s greatest hits will be performed by an orchestra.

Spotlight Central and Love Imagery have photos and a recap of The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, featuring trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, at the State Theatre on January 22, 2026. Entitled "Duke in ...

Zhao Chengxin, director general of the Information Office of China's Hunan Provincial People's Government, speaks during the launching ceremony of the musical talent show ‘Sing for Africa’ in Nairobi, ...