Between the hostile diminutives of Southern U.S. racism that give the term "boy" its fraught legacy, and the reclamation of Black innocence and enjoyment by Black people who demand the language back ...

If there is one musician as commonly associated as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with the West African musical movements Afrobeat and Afrobeats (never mind Afro-Blues and Afro-Soul), this is the preserve of ...

Editor's Note: This segment contains audio that some listeners may find disturbing or offensive. Composer Julius Eastman died homeless in 1990. Just 49 years old, he represented a promising future in ...

Julius Eastman in 1974, during a rehearsal of the S.E.M. Ensemble at SUNY Buffalo Credit: Chris Rusiniak When minimalist composer Julius Eastman died of cardiac arrest in a Buffalo hospital in 1990, ...

Julius Modu Ogunti, an Atlanta-based musician and entrepreneur, is rapidly emerging on the international music scene with a unique blend of Afrobeats, Hip Hop, and R&B. Signed to his own label, Smoove ...

Julius Eastman (1940-1990) was an innovative composer and dynamic performer. He appeared with Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic. He performed Peter Maxwell Davies’s renowned “Eight Songs for ...

The bandleader, songwriter, singer, saxophonist and keyboard player Orlando Julius, who has died aged 78, helped to transform the Nigerian music scene in the 1960s with highly commercial, ...

Orlando Julius Live in Concert in 2015. Photo by Kmeron/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND A titan of Nigerian highlife had passed on at 79. With a career spanning almost six decades Orlando Julius stamped his foot ...

Julius Drake is not just a pianist. He’s a specialist pianist. His great achievement is his work with singers and as a chamber musician. Talking to him about how he ended up as a professional pianist, ...

The man who taught Fela Kuti a thing or two has been all but erased from formal music history. He deserves much better treatment in death. This article went live on May first, two thousand twenty two, ...