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 ...

Vibraphonist behind "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" paved the way for neo-soul and became sampling fodder for hip-hop ...

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The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...

Roy Ayers, the legendary vibraphonist and musician behind 1976’s album “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” has died. He was 84.

Here are five albums saturated with talent, upbeat melodies and words of wisdom, perfect for curing the midterms funk.

The Jan. 29 collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger airplane over Washington killed 67 people. The Jan. 29 ...

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There’s no catalog as chaotic, messy, varied, hilarious, or rump-shaking as P-Funk, with an Afrofuturist philosophy of funk as the cosmic life force, dedicated to the principle of “Free your ...

with its minimalist synth-funk style, marked a new musical direction for Ayers. It made No. 12 on the US Dance chart and could be heard playing in the background in Michael Jackson’s video for ...