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 ...

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

Roy Ayers, the legendary vibraphonist and composer known for his groundbreaking work in jazz-funk, has passed away at the age of 84 ...

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 ...

The composer was known for his often-sampled 1976 album "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" and a career that spanned six decades.

Legendary jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers dies at 84, leaving a lasting impact on music with his groundbreaking fusion of jazz, ...

It's called Beats & Brass and is described as a one-of-a-kind benefit concert experience. It will feature music from a "high-voltage, global funk bank" called the Funk Junket, according to a press ...

describing him as “highly influential and sought after as a music collaborator.” Ayers was a pioneer of the jazz-funk movement, and he was well-known for neo-soul, acid jazz and rhythm and ...

Starting on Tuesday, February 16, Jazzmatazz Lounge (1612 East 17 Avenue), which has offered live jazz on the weekends since it opened in November, will begin featuring live music Tuesdays through ...