The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...

The jazz studies program at USM has been in existence for over 50 years. Its ensembles include two big bands, and three to four combos of various shapes and sizes including the award-winning Southern ...

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

Everyone in New Orleans knows the essential Mardi Gras songs. The likes of “Carnival Time,” “Mardi Gras Mambo,” “Go To the ...

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: ...

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.

Most of those who have written about it will tell you that The Original Dixieland Jazz Band was the first band to record a jazz record, in late February 1917. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band were ...

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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 ...