The Motown Jazz Cats are aiming to bring jazz music back to its 1940s roots in a college-based city with a musical taste evolving toward rock and electronic music. The band, formed near the end of ...

Motown Jazz Cats define not only the grounds, but also the outer limits of Jazz. The trio absorbs and transforms diverse musical influences into deeply cool improv, earning the reward to play Jazz.

Philadelphia-based Lifeline Music Coalition has for over a decade sponsored jazz events which are eclectic in taste and attract fans by making the music listenable and providing enjoyable atmospherics ...

So what exactly is a Motown icon like Smokey Robinson doing in the lineup for this year's Tri-C JazzFest? Actually, it makes perfect sense. Motown's roots in jazz run deep -- and so do Robinson's.

Sounds of POWER, a fundraising concert and event honoring Ypsilanti-based POWER Inc.’s former executive director and co-founder Denese Brown, is planned for Friday at Washtenaw Community College.

Marcus Belgrave, a jazz trumpeter who shared the stage and recording studio with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Cocker and a string of Motown artists, has died. He was 78. Belgrave ...

Miami University Middletown’s Fantastic Free Fridays series continues its sixteenth season at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 12 with an interactive performance by P. Ann Everson-Price featuring A Musical ...

Inside the mythic Studio A exhibit at the Motown Museum, you can see an actual Gibson 335 guitar and wah-wah pedal Dennis Coffey would use in recording “Cloud Nine,” “Just My Imagination,” and ...

Jerome Collins is finding future success by looking back. A member of the iconic a capella group Straight No Chaser for more than a decade, the Allentown native takes the stage at the Boscov’s Berks ...

Four headliners to perform at the 2025 Rochester International Jazz Festival were revealed Tuesday - bringing a bit of soul, funk, Motown and rock 'n' roll to Rochester's Eastman Theatre for the 9-day ...