NPR'S Ayesha Rascoe speaks with jazz musician Mark Turner about his latest album, "Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man." It's based on the book by James Weldon Johnson. Lift every ...

Mark Paul (at right), aka Captain Don River, with his bawdy band of salty seamen, Captains of the Head. Credit: Erick Buchholz Longtime Detroit musician Mark Paul, known throughout the land and over ...

A musician doesn’t always have to make it big to have a huge impact. That was one message behind the long career of Mark Ridlen, a high-spirited linchpin of the Dallas arts and music community who ...

Chesnutt was taken to the hospital moments before his scheduled performance in Louisiana on Thursday and was released Saturday Sarah Michaud is the senior news editor of PEOPLE's music vertical. She ...

Chicago jazz stars Mark Burnell and Anne Burnell join Steve Dale to share Mark’s amazing story on how he played the keyboard while undergoing brain surgery. Mark and Anne talk about his recovery ...

Lift every voice and sing - James Weldon Johnson penned the poem around 1900, years before joining and leading the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ...

NPR'S Ayesha Rascoe speaks with jazz musician Mark Turner about his latest album, "Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man." It's based on the book by James Weldon Johnson.