Skidmore College is a predominantly white institution (PWI); this much has always been clear to the student body. We strive ...

Gypsy jazz, popularized by Reinhardt and Stephanie Grappelli and their Quintette du Hot Club de France in the 1930s, is also ...

It has been said that Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim was the George Gershwin of Brazil—and there is a solid ring of truth in that, for both contributed large bodies of songs to the jazz ...

(AP Photo/Ron Harris, File) Jazz musician Roy Ayers, looks on during his workshop with young music artist at Funda Centre in Soweto, South Africa, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File ...

WASHINGTON — Roy Ayers, the composer and jazz-funk pioneer behind "Everybody Loves the Sunshine," has died. He was 84. Ayers died Tuesday in New York City after a long illness, according to a ...