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In the first citywide singing contest, Chicago Sings Karaoke, Jason E. Jackson beat out 540 others to take the top prize of $5,000. Mayor Lori Lightfoot belts out ‘Dancing in the Street.’

As the ebullient husband-and-wife singing team who head the Nashville, Tennessee-based band The War and Treaty, Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter are happy to discuss the joy their wonderfully soulful music brings them and their audience.

The Anacortes, Washington-based DIY hero takes us through his week in listening, from a “sexually suggestive” EDM song by Pickle to a Nina Simone record picked out by a jazz-loving child

Seven years after her debut album, the London based rapper is finally getting the industry recognition she deserves.

We talk to the star ahead of the Jazz FM Awards and her appearance at the EFG London Jazz Festival

An eye-opening biography of Raine Spencer; an exciting counterfactual novel set in postwar Britain; and Warren Ellis’s witty account of devotion

‘Diva’ has good, neutral and bad connotations – but as singers from Maria Callas to Beyoncé have shown, it is a trait of sheer excellence

Armed with just a passion for jazz, Taylor became a producer and the owner of the world’s most successful jazz label, working with everyone from John Coltrane to Nina Simone

The Grammy-winning singer covers hits by Nina Simone and Billie Holiday. Plus: grave consequences in BBC Four’s Norwegian oil boom drama. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The award-winning actor and singer was backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, not always to positive effect

Elvis Presley is the perfect subject matter for Australian film director Baz Luhrmann. Not just because the opulence of Presley’s showmanship and Lurhmann’s trademark visual style are perfect bedfellows, but because the “Presleyverse” itself is not about Elvis Presley. It’s about the idea of Elvis, the great myth of Elvis…