Aussie label AIM's motives might need to be called into question with the release of the new Herbie Hancock set Jazz to Funk. It features the reissues of two obscure sessions from the '60s, both of ...

For those partial to music rooted in vintage soul and its allied forms, next week will seem like Christmas. On Tuesday, Seth Applebaum and his Ghost Funk Orchestra hit town, nine members strong, on a ...

The 40th edition of the Syracuse International Jazz Festival is much like the past 39 editions: Fun, free and with a ...

Fridays will be filled with folk, funk, jazz and more as the Kenan Center presents its free weekly Music In The Gardens series. This classic lounge-on-the-front-lawn summer series features a ...

UK rap legend Rodney P reveals the origins of the jazz-funk movement, the very first home-grown black British music culture, inspired by the avant-garde American music of the 70s. Show more UK rap ...

Hip-hop first emerged in the Bronx during the 1970s as a creative outlet for Black communities grappling with social and economic hardships. Born out of block parties and street corner cyphers, it ...

No pigeon-hole is quite big enough for The Stepkids, a trio from Connecticut in the U.S. They’ve been called a psychedelic soul band, and why not. They were all raised as jazz musicians and their ...

In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections between the music of the moment and the films that gave it a platform. While ...