Daze Between New Orleans has announced its 2025 late-night shows including the all-star Daze Between Band at Tipitina's on ...

Jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers died Tuesday in ... He also collaborated with Afrobeat innovator Fela Kuti and funk icon Rick James as well as contemporary hip-hop and R&B acts like Alicia Keys, Erykah ...

As New Orleans catches its collective breath after Mardi Gras, the upcoming week will be relatively quiet. Case in point: ...

Black Masking Indians gather for Super Sunday in Uptown at A.L. Davis Park and tribes walk through Central City beginning at ...

He blended jazz with electric funk, soul, and a smorgasbord of other musical flavors but arguably his most critical innovation was moving away from instrumental music. “I realized that when you ...

March 5, 2025 • The vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer helped inspire the neo-soul movement, and his best-known song was sampled over 100 times.

Photographs in illustration by Santiago Felipe/; John Atashian/; Paul Bergen/Redferns/; Gary Null/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/; BSR Agency/Gentle Look/; Jim McCrary/Redferns/; Michael Putland/; Frank ...

Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk vibraphonist ... Ayers was surrounded by music from an early age. His father played trombone, and his mother was a piano instructor. At the age of five ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island high school band was recently selected to compete in a prestigious nationwide competition in May. Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the top high school jazz ...

DJ Funk, a Chicago-born musician and producer who coined the “ghetto house,” has died at age 54. Funk, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had been “bravely” battling stage 4 cancer ...

The 1st Annual Jazz Festival Concert was held in 1968 in Carney Auditorium at what was then called Kansas State College of Pittsburg. The festival in its current format was started in 1974 by ...