In Ghana, the polyrhythmic drum-driven musical style known as takada is a woman’s cry to freedom. “To be a composer or drummer among the Anlo-Ewe people of Ghana was something reserved for men,” ...

For 33 years, Abraham Adzenyah has been teaching traditional West African drumming to Wesleyan University students. Now the students will perform for their teacher. More than 80 of them will pay ...

It’s easy to leap to the wrong conclusions about the Dave Matthews Band. Because this quintet includes four exceptional instrumentalists, a lot of critics have called it a jam band. For them, the ...

Drummer/percussionist Jerome Cooper's fruitful musical legacy with the Revolutionary Ensemble and stints with saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton, pianist Cecil Taylor, and others reads like a who's ...

Jazz Is Dead, the label co-founded by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad that issues top-shelf recordings, will release Tony Allen JID018 on July 7. Pre-order the album here. The genius that is ...

Near the end of this year's soggy Airlie Arts Festival, the gardens exploded with brightness and electricity. It was the culmination of the three-year-long Geledes Spectacles project, a collaboration ...