Jazz singer Barbara Morrison sings in 2011 at the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center in Leimert Park. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) Barbara Morrison, one of Los Angeles' top jazz ...

Born in Ypsilanti, Michigan and raised in Romulus, Michigan, Barbara Morrison recorded her first appearance for radio in Detroit at the age of 10. Well known in the Los Angeles area for her duo and ...

Los Angeles jazz legend Barbara Morrison, who performed on a pair of Grammy-nominated albums, produced another and founded a performing arts theater and jazz/blues museum in Leimert Park, died today ...

With a performing arts center dedicated to her namesake in Leimert Park, legendary jazz and blues artist Barbara Morrison was known as the soul mother of this community. Now, a small memorial is ...

Jazz vocalist and blues legend Barbara Morrison has passed away at age 72. The Detroit native and daughter of a doo-wop singer had been hospitalized with cardiovascular disease and died Wednesday ...

Barbara Morrison, one of the legendary voices of jazz, has died at the age of 72. At the time of writing, Morrison’s cause of death has not been made public. In 2011, Morrison publicly confirmed that ...

LOS ANGELES—Barbara Morrison will sing songs popularized by Aretha Franklin, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald and Big Mama Thornton, the performing artists who were the greatest influences on her ...

LOS ANGELES — A Leimert Park intersection was dedicated Saturday, Sept. 10, as Barbara Morrison Square in honor of the late, legendary jazz singer —coinciding with the anniversary of her birth and the ...

BARBARA MORRISON HALL Barbara Hall passed away peacefully on December 2nd of last year after a very long and full life. Born in Los Angeles in 1928, she grew up in an amazing family in an amazing time ...

*Another beloved old-school artist has passed. Barbara Morrison, a local jazz legend in Southern California, has died at the age of 72. A GoFundMe launched for Morrison in early March, after “she was ...