Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, ...

Oral historian Veronica Johnson discusses the Detroit Women in Jazz Oral History Project. Oral historian Veronica Johnson has partnered with the Detroit Sound Conservancy to create the Detroit Women ...

For jazz lovers in the Motor City, Jan. 30, 2026, will be a night to remember as The Cookers take the stage at the Detroit Music Hall. The septet, whose members span more than six decades of jazz ...

In this Destination Detroit-themed episode, hear about Detroit PBS’ efforts to share Southeast Michigan’s rich history ahead of America250; learn about an oral history project that’s preserving the ...

I have always found Detroit jazz lovers to be the most educated jazz audience I know,” said trumpeter David Weiss.

When jazz musician and educator Marion Hayden treated herself to a sushi lunch on a random day in December, she was definitely not expecting a life-changing phone call. Today, Kresge Arts in Detroit ...

With splendid weather and some operational changes, the 46th Annual Detroit Jazz Festival had both downtown and midtown bopping and grooving throughout Labor Day Weekend, with more than four dozen ...

The history of jazz music is told in hundreds of cities from coast to coast in America. From the cradle in New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, the great migration of Black Americans northward ...

The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith were honored at Aretha's Jazz Café... Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie ...

Adorned with feathered headpieces, strings of pearls, bright lipstick and custom-made wigs and satin dresses, flecked with jewels and gems, Detroit's finest jazz vocalists — including Veronique ...