The virtuoso drummer’s political activism is captured on a gripping set of compositions from the 1950s and ’60s ...

One of thee best documentaries to premiere at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat a ...

Documentary 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat' centers on how jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong were used by the CIA to deflect ...

There was nothing easy, or inevitable, about Roach’s rise to the top as a celebrity stylist. Growing up in South Side Chicago ...

Born Sept. 27, 1924, Powell helped set the style for jazz piano after WWII. While earlier pianists played busy bass patterns, he helped establish a more fragmented, punctuating role for the left hand.

Africa, colonialism, the United Nations, the 1961 assassination of Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba, the first prime ...

United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the ...

Rivermont Collegiate invites the public to join its 140th birthday celebration on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., ...

After these viral Dune moments, Zendaya and Law continued to cement their legacies as fashion icons on the Challengers press ...

A new essay collection contextualizes the activist’s life through the physical spaces that nurtured him, like Yuri ...

From younger artists like pianist Joe Block and guitarist Miles Okazaki, to Abdullah Ibrahim who will arrive in Philly a ...

"It isn't just about jazz, it is jazz." Ready for a journey back in time? Kino Lorber has debuted an official US trailer for the acclaimed musical documentary film titled Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, ...