Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington poses for a portrait. She has recorded a reimagining of the legendary Max Roach album "We ...

Episode 909 of Neon Jazz ignites with brilliance—and it starts with a rising star lighting up the modern jazz sky: Isaiah J. Thompson. We dive into fresh, soul-stirring tracks from his powerful 2025 ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning drummer/composer Tyshawn Sorey may just be the busiest musician on planet Earth. Depending on the day, Sorey is on the road with his energetic trio, innovative larger ensembles, ...

How best to revisit a classic album of Civil Rights-era jazz activism two generations after the fact? If you are drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, and you're re-imagining—her word—"We Insist! by Max ...

Students at seven schools around the city will have an opportunity to learn more about jazz and social justice, as they study the works and advocacy of a son of Bedford-Stuyvesant: legendary drummer ...

You can read this quote by Max Roach, from Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews (1993), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Suggested Reading ...

Click to open image viewer. A black-and-white photograph of Max Roach at a performance in New York City. He is wearing a grey hat and black rimmed glasses. The photograph is taken from extreme low ...

“The more things change, the more they stay the same,” French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Kerr said in 1849. Nearly 200 years later, that is sadly true of the greatest protest songs. In 2025, songs ...