In the early ’80s, jazz legend Max Roach worked with hip-hop musicians, and in 1983, Herbie Hancock’s groundbreaking track “Rockit” helped introduce hip-hop to the mainstream.

Like most other forms of jazz expression, jazz vocals suffered during the ’60s, ’70s and early ’80s, when the music took a commercial nose dive.

New York City’s music scene was perhaps never more vibrant than it was in the early ’80s when new wave, no wave, punk, hip hop, jazz, electro, salsa, disco and pop were all thriving and ...

There have been few more dynamic periods in New York City musical history than the 1980s, when a wide variety of artists across an even wider number of genres—punk, pop, hip-hop, salsa, jazz and ...

From the mid 1960s into the early '80s, nearly every Sunday starting at 5pm, the Famous Ballroom was reserved for concerts put on by volunteers from the Left Bank Jazz Society.

SUMMERS: From the mid-1960s into the early '80s, nearly every Sunday from 5 p.m. onward, the Famous Ballroom was reserved for concerts put on by Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society. These were ...

Donald Byrd, the influential jazz trumpeter, composer and educator, died Feb. 4. He was 80. A post on the Web page of Detroit mortuary Haley Funeral Directors belatedly confirmed Byrd’s passing ...