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 ...

Richter City Rebels - It was so much fun we're back at it again, down to the Rogue & Vagabond for a big brass party!The Richter City Rebels have a sound that ...

Jazz-funk pioneer and vibraphonist Roy Ayers dies at 84, leaving behind a timeless sound that continues to shape Hip Hop, R&B and more decades after his rise.

A new generation of artists has rewritten the definition of rap to make the genre a cultural powerhouse yet again.

Atlanta took over from Houston as the hub of the Dirty South style in the early 1990s, with bass-heavy sounds in part borrowed from Miami, and leaning heavily on funk and soul. Detroit hip-hop was ...

A multi-genre music legend known as the Godfather of Neo Soul is dead at age 84. Roy Ayers, the jazz vibraphonist best known ...

The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble is a 9-piece heavy, instrumental funk band from San Diego, CA. Their influences are vast and ...

As Hip-Hop embraced Jazz—and vice versa—it introduced a new generation to a timeless tradition, giving rise to a subgenre that continues to thrive today. One of its leading figures in the ...

A lot can happen in a decade. In the music world alone, we saw significant sonic shifts in genres, artists rise and fall, and ...

Roy Ayers, the trailblazer of jazz, funk and neo-soul whose "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" proved a hugely popular hip-hop sample, has died. He was 84 years old. The artist's family shared the news in ...