No musician has been more devoted to exploring the connection between Afro-American classical music (jazz) and the ancestral spirits and rhythms of the African continent than Randy Weston. The ...

In ‘How Black Music Took Over the World’ (Basic, Apr.), composer and bassist Gibbs charts the spread of African rhythms ...

Learn traditional folkloric rhythms of the African diaspora. By Play conga, cajon, shekere, bells, and other percussion in a community setting welcom ...

Instructor Lawrence Greene leads the African Drumming Class at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta Social Hall Saturday. (Photo by Larry Launstein Jr.) MARIETTA — Residents in the Mid ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...

In time, versions of these rhythms were attached to work songs, field hollers and street cries, many of which were accompanied by dance. The creators of these forms drew from an African cultural ...

It was telling of Omelika Kuumba’s spirit that on her birthday, her first after losing both parents within eight months of one another, she would give a concert in their honor. Near the end of her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height ...

The Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center’s (AHCAC) Winds of Heritage Dance Company “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance celebrating African rhythms and American tap ...