After a six-month wait, the Smooth Jazz Festival is ready for a spring show at Riverwalk Amphitheater this weekend.

Jazz funk is a style of music that grew out of jazz, but brings in elements of soul music and rhythm and blues. While jazz often features a swing beat, jazz funk is backed by a groove rhythm that ...

Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk vibraphonist, record producer and composer ... toured Nigeria for six weeks with Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, and produced a beloved album by the group RAMP, titled ...

Plus, it’s close to where they’re staying and the group is all in the same place ... first exposed to it in the fourth grade, when a jazz trio came to his school and performed.

Technical dance classes, like ballet, tap, and jazz, are generally considered ... with the teacher in a dance funk class than in a traditional group fitness class if you have questions about ...

Roy Ayers, who has died aged 84, was a pioneer of jazz-funk in the 1970s, the uplifting groove and messages of his music exemplified by his best-known track, Everybody Loves the Sunshine; although ...

Three hours after exiting Edina High School, heads held high, the Holy Family Catholic jazz/funk dance team gathered inside the multi-purpose gymnasium where the team had practice five or six days ...

Roy Ayers, the trailblazer of jazz, funk and neo-soul whose "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" proved a hugely popular ... And the electric piano hook off "Love" featured in the 1990 dance smash "Groove ...

Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk vibraphonist ... and produced a beloved album by the group RAMP, titled 'Come into Knowledge'. He also brought his vibraphone prowess to the track 'Find ...

Roy Ayers, the jazz-funk vibraphonist known for Everybody Loves ... His biggest hit, Everybody Loves The Sunshine, came in 1976 from his group, Roy Ayers Ubiquity. His songs have since been ...

Jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers died earlier this week after a long illness. He was 84 years old. NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento has the story. ISABELLA GOMEZ SARMIENTO, BYLINE: Roy Ayers started ...

Now this is how you retire: 60-year-old dance teacher Shirley Clements celebrated her last school year with a surprise performance – of Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk,” no less – at the annual ...