The Big 6 Brass Band is celebrating its fifth birthday this weekend by putting feet into motion. The young but celebrated New Orleans sextet started Saturday playing a jazz funeral procession, then ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Quarters of Change, an alternative band from New York City, took the stage at ...

Da Truth Brass Band looks a lot different in 2022 than it did in 2004. Of its current members, only two were a part of the group of teenagers who formed the band fresh out of high school: bandleader ...

The history of jazz has a distinctly metrocentric bias: During the 1920s and ’30s, we tell ourselves, the really important musicians played at New Orleans, Chicago, and New York; historians have only ...