When thinking about jazz, it’s impossible to ignore the deep, soulful contributions of Black women who have shaped the genre into what it is today. From smooth and sultry vocals to bold, ...

The world of music has given us many great female singers over the years. No matter whether you are a fan of rock, jazz, soul, country, or modern pop, it is easy to find a female singer whose voice ...

Veronica Swift has nothing against melisma, the vocal technique in which a single syllable is stretched out and crammed with as many notes as the human larynx and lungs will allow. She just doesn’t do ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleo Laine at Ronnie Scott’s in Soho, 1969 - David Redfern/Redferns Dame Cleo Laine, the singer and actress who has died aged 97, ...

The members of the jazz ensemble Straight Ahead (L-R) are Alina Morr, Kymberli Wright, Marion Hayden, Ingrid Racine and Gayelynn McKinney. Next weekend, the Women in the Arts Festival will be back in ...

When I was new to the music, all the standard histories of jazz were keen to dismiss what they derisively referred to as the “Vaudeville Blues” singers of the Jazz Age. I remember one line in ...

A note to those who feel, not without merit, that popular culture is getting so stiflingly politically correct and even “woke” that it is being strangled to death: In 1989, when I published my book ...

Sheila Jordan, the jazz vocalist who tugged at the boundaries of music whether she was scat-singing or freshly interpreting songs by Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hart, or Jimmy Webb, died on Monday. She ...

We're shine a well-deserved spotlight on Graciela Grillo, Tania Maria and more artists who made Latin jazz what it is today.