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As educators and communities nationwide rush to figure out what learning will look like this fall, 92Y has a solution available to schools, whether remote or in person: Young Leaders Series.

Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage will present a variety of workshops, Q&As and performances highlighting incredible Jazz artists through their SummerStage Anywhere Digital Series.

Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is proud to present a variety of workshops, Q&As and performances highlighting incredible Jazz artists through their SummerStage Anywhere Digital Series.

George Wein, the 94 year old creator and founder of Newport Jazz Festival - one of the oldest and longest running music festivals in the world has announced a full slate of programming for what would have been 2020's Newport Jazz Festival weekend.

Michigan's only professional African American Theatre, Plowshares Theatre Company, presents a virtual concert of songs from an original musical set in Detroit's past. The play, Hastings Street, is a work in progress set in 1949 at the cusp of the order to tear down Black Bottom, the segregated Black community that was once where I-75 is now.

Atlanta based singer and songwriter, Brenda Nicole Moorer, gathers 20 millennial artists to create and explore the next generation of jazz through a new lens. The resulting project is a 10 song concept genre bending jazz album entitled MARROW.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today revealed ongoing and long-term Social Impact initiatives which leverage the arts for non-arts outcomes and invest in the future.

With inspiring artists, deep content, passionate students and a soulful approach, Open Studio is more than a jazz learning platform – it's a global family of music lovers, joining together to celebrate jazz as a vibrant and collaborative art form.

This weekend, you can take a voice lesson GRAMMY nominated vocalist Kurt Elling, a guitar lesson with former Tonight Show guitarist Kevin Eubanks, or sit in on an introspective webinar with Cecil McLorin Salvant and Rudresh Mahanthappa right in your living room!

As the novel coronavirus continues to pose a serious threat to public health around the world, the University Musical Society has announced several changes to its fall season.

The live music community came together to raise funds and awareness for racial equality with the new one-day, donation-based virtual event, Justice Comes Alive.

Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is thrilled to announce the continuation of its free digital series SummerStage Anywhere. The platform will offer one-of-a-kind digital arts content daily kicking off the week of July 6th. 

Motéma Music has announced the November 13th release of 'Party of Four,' sophomore release from the acclaimed Motema artists, The Royal Bopsters.

On Sunday, June 28th, Justice Comes Alive—a brand new, one-day, donation-based virtual event—will unite the live music community to raise funds and awareness for organizations empowering Black communities, keeping people out of the criminal justice system, and working to dismantle the systemic racism which persists in our society.

The Philly POPS announces today the mission and ongoing work of its Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Task Force.

SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK and Laudable Productions present a virtual concert and conversation on Friday, June 19th at 8pm in honor of Juneteenth 2020. The event will pay homage to this day in 1865 when news of emancipation reached the last group of enslaved Black people in Galveston, TX - two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, making slavery illegal.

Honduran/Spanish singer, songwriter and composer Eva Cortés delivers a revelatory set of flamenco and blues-tinged Latin jazz on her newest record, Todas las Voces. Working for the second time with producer, arranger and trombonist Doug Beavers (Eddie Palmieri, Spanish Harlem Orchestra),

For the ninth consecutive year, singers from around the world will compete in the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition (aka 'The Sassy Awards') - a 21st-century version of the amateur night at the Apollo Theater that helped launch the career of a gifted teenager from Newark, Sarah 'Sassy' Vaughan, more than 75 years ago.

Today, Jazz at Lincoln Center re-launched JAZZ.ORG, an entirely new website designed for people around the world to easily access the organization's wealth of programming, educational materials, and more valuable resources during these challenging times.

On Tuesday night, viewers of San Francisco Conservatory of Music's live Tiny Dorm concert were the first to hear that acclaimed saxophonist Joshua Redman will join SFCM as Artistic Director of Roots, Jazz, and American Music.