How jazz moved from a position of dominance in popular music to a niche music but also to the status of Black classical music.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has chosen Alicia Graf Mack to be its next artistic director, it announced on Thursday. A former member of the company, Mack, 45, currently the ...

The Village Voice reviews "Edges of Ailey" the Whitney Museum show of the dancer and choreographer contextualized by visual arts.

Everyone knows how jazz, intertwined with the deeper sound of blues, emerged as the indomitable musical voice of black ...