"Afro Blue" is a jazz standard written by Mongo Santamaria in 1959, with a lyric added later by Oscar Brown Jr. It's been performed countless times, by everyone from John Coltrane to Robert Glasper ...

2011 has been a big year for Afro Blue, Howard University’s premiere jazz vocal ensemble. They’ve performed multiple times at the Kennedy Center and collaborated with the legendary Bobby McFerrin in ...

The album's eponymous track, Afro Blue, is a bravado rendition of the Mongo Santamaria classic, featuring the fire and swing that Mabern and his band were known for joined by acclaimed vocalist ...

While his days as a true innovator are long past, pianist McCoy Tyner, now approaching seventy, has continued to make fine music. In many ways, his post-1970s work has been more about stylistic ...

Every day between now and March 16, Song of the Day will showcase a track by an artist playing the South by Southwest music festival. For NPR Music's full coverage of SXSW — complete with full-length ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On last night's episode of NBC's THE SING-OFF, Afro-Blue became the most recent ...

A “behind the scenes” look into what it’s like to be a member of this dynamic ensemble. Afro Blue, Howard University’s premier vocal jazz ensemble, invites you to a “behind the scenes” look into what ...

Fifty years is a lifetime for some, but John Coltrane accomplished so much in his short life, having died at the age of 40 in 1967. On October 22, 1963, and November 2, of the same year, he was on a ...

I love the album cover for multi-hyphenate Dee Dee Bridgewater’s debut album, 1974’s Afro Blue. Dee Dee is a Grammy-award winning singer, actor, philanthropist, etc. She’s bad bad. Just like this ...