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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three-time Grammy winner and Tony Award-winning performer Dee Dee Bridgewater has turned 76, continuing a music career that has ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...

The NBA icon shared how much the Brooklyn rapper impressed him as a teen. "On behalf of the family of Bernard Wright (Nard), we are saddened to announce that yesterday Bernard has been called home to ...

“So We Won’t Forget,” the lead single on the Texas trio Khruangbin’s third and most recent album, “Mordechai,” released last summer, begins with an interlocking snare drum and bumpity bass riff ...

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

Three-time Grammy winner and Tony Award-winning performer Dee Dee Bridgewater has turned 76, continuing a music career that has lasted for more than five decades across jazz, funk, R&B, theater and ...