There is a story Detroit Jazz Festival President and Artistic Director Chris Collins loves to tell about an intimate conversation he had with Gretchen Valade. Valade had rescued the festival from the ...
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 ...
When jazz musician and educator Marion Hayden treated herself to a sushi lunch on a random day in December, she was ...
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 ...