Jazz had an amazing 2017. It was the music’s centennial—the Original Dixieland Jass Band’s “Dixie Jass Band One Step” and “Livery Stable Blues” were recorded on February 26, 1917 and ...

Rock Candy Funk Party (RCFP) is a collection of groove loving musicians bringing a fresh and funky vibe to the world of jazz. The band formed around 2009 when drummer Tal Bergman and guitarist Ron ...

The Art Ensemble of Chicago was hardly a funk band, but you wouldn’t know it from this soundtrack album for a long-forgotten movie, recorded in 1970 at the end of the avant-garde jazz group’s ...

His first solo album, The Electric Sounds of Johnny Arrow, showed off those roots — a parti-colored mixtape that percolated with Ethiopian funk, Afrobeat, boogaloo, wah-wah guitar, and Bitches ...

At the same time, he’s made five albums under his own name full of willfully uncategorizable compositions that combine jazz, funk, country and rock into a swirling, raucous blend that jumps, struts, ...

Best New Recordings 1. David Sanford Big Band, A Prayer for Lester Bowie A Prayer for Lester Bowie is the most adventurous big band album I’ve heard in long time, a combination of jazz, avant ...

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Paul Jackson, whose springy and grooving electric bass lines drove much of Herbie Hancock’s pioneering jazz-funk in the 1970s, died on Thursday at a hospital in Japan, where he had lived for ...

Netsky's first full-length since 2012 hits shelves today. By Elias Leight After releasing a pair of albums on Hospital Records – and independent, London-based label known as a hotbed for the ...