Four headliners to perform at the 2025 Rochester International Jazz Festival were revealed Tuesday - bringing a bit of soul, ...

In the early 1970s, Berry Gordy decided to take Motown to Hollywood, and he made a gamble on the first film he put the ...

Motown was musically open to all types of music and founded labels devoted to gospel and jazz. Gordy started one particular offshoot, called Mel-o-dy, "for those R&B and soul artists I wasn't sure ...

Motown may exist today as one of the biggest powerhouses in soul music, but everyone has to get the ball rolling somewhere.

Detroit’s dazzling musical history will be brought into focus this weekend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African ...

In 1971, he became the first Motown artist to negotiate a contract that allowed for complete artistic control of his music ... albums that largely covered jazz and pop standards.

On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever change the music industry. The following year, it merged ...

Four headliners to perform at the 2025 Rochester International Jazz Festival were revealed Tuesday - bringing a bit of soul, funk, Motown and rock ... Their music is a combination of folk ...

For instance, Motown is so big that it overshadowed Detroit’s role in other forms of music. You can’t really talk about jazz without talking about Detroit. You can’t talk about gospel ...