This year is the centennial of the birth of Anita O’Day, born Anita Belle Colton, a daring jazz vocalist who developed her own style and created a vast body of innovative vocals while being tagged ...

Known as the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald popularised "scat singing" where she used her voice to sound like a ...

This Jazz Appreciation Month, a Philadelphia jazz artist is putting a fresh spin on an old genre — using her lyrics to speak directly to today's women. Singer, composer and arranger Lora Sherrodd is ...

Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, ...

*Praise is pouring in from the Jazz community for the inaugural Jazz Music Awards, which had its broadcast premiere on January 1, 2024, on PBS Passport’s on-demand platform, as well as the nine PBS ...