The Wall Of Jazz is a brand new, unique, and exciting Dallas-based Jazz music ensemble that gets underway this coming Summer (2009). The ensemble will perform both 1970s-era Jazz/Funk "cover" ...

The arrival of these two compilations of 1970s jazz/funk begs one simple question: what took RCA so long? The fact that the mini-revival known as acid jazz peaked about five years ago puts these ...

*Larry & Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell enjoyed an out-of-nowhere run in the `70s as producers of loosely arranged musical nuggets that felt good, painted in broad strokes lyrically, and became bedrock ...

Funk music was transforming rapidly in the 1970s, and by 1976, many hits already felt timeless because they sounded like the ...

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 ...

Albums like To Pimp a Butterfly and 1999 blend jazz harmonies with sharp lyricism, proving the genre’s deep connection. Hip-hop may keep evolving, but funk and jazz remain its heartbeat, fueling its ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...

Mike Clark hasn’t lived in the Bay Area for some four decades, but the New York-based drummer never cut his deep ties to the region. Best known as an architect of East Bay funk for his work with ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists in modern music embody the spirit of innovation quite like Herbie Hancock. From his formative years with Miles Davis to his own trailblazing solo career, Hancock has ...

Mike Clark hasn’t lived in the Bay Area for some four decades, but the New York-based drummer never cut his deep ties to the region. Best known as an architect of East Bay funk for his work with ...