Jazz Snobs Funk Addicts: Season 2: The Return of JSFA!! album review by Ian Patterson, published on March 15, 2014. ... Its 2009 eponymous debut mixed electro-acoustic jazz-funk and mellifluous ...

Beyond its jazz roots, “Cantaloupe Island” has become a cultural reference point. Its 1993 sampling by Us3 in “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” introduced a new generation to Hancock’s work ...

For those feeling the hypnotizing musicianship and poetic prose on To Pimp, peep our 10-album primer of jazz/funk/spoken word projects that you should also check out. Carlton Wade is a writer ...

It’s a jazz-funk album, first released in May, 1997. The first track, "Whispering, Came Violets," has a vaguely creepy, dark vibe. A few other tracks are faster, cheerier and some are quite mellow.

The Funky Freqs came up playing the post-Corea jazz-rock style known as free funk — music with fewer complicated melodies and more earthy grooving. Their new album is Hymn of the Third Galaxy.

Flying Funk will appeal more to soul fans and listeners in general, since the more out-there stuff is replaced with solid grooves. Not surprisingly, keyboardist and urban jazz pioneer Lonnie Liston ...