The Harlem Renaissance, ... Billie Holiday (1915-1959): Billie Holiday, known as “Lady Day,” was a jazz and blues singer whose emotive and haunting voice stirred hearts worldwide.

The Harlem Renaissance — known then as the "New Negro Movement" — saw the rise of jazz, ... Jazz is taking form in places like New Orleans and has roots in the blues and gospel and ...

Mapping the people, homes and hot spots that transformed Harlem during its Renaissance. ... The blues and jazz singer Alberta Hunter, like many notable artists of the time, ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article Striver’s Row Townhouses. In the 1920s and 1930s, Harlem was buzzing with the roaring sounds of jazz, the chatter of new ideas, and new rhythms of ...

In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Decuir, Interim Chair and Associate Professor of Music at Clark Atlanta University, meticulously documents the West African roots of blues and jazz music, tracing ...

A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. ... Hayden’s 1943 Beale Street Blues, ... trumpet on the city’s jazz ...

The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, ... a Blues singer from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s, back to life onstage. ...

Using poetry from Hughes' 1926 collection The Weary Blues, I've crafted songs in various genres - jazz, blues and R&B, among others - that will celebrate the Black joy of the Harlem Renaissance ...

Canvases like “Blues” (1929), “Black Belt” (1934), and “Nightlife” (1943) underscore the urbanity that is at the heart of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The Harlem Renaissance and ...

Revealing the Cultural Forces Behind America's Musical Revolution Dr. Michael Decuir is an Author, Interim Chair, and Associate Professor of Music Revealing the Cultural Forces Behind America's ...