Kendrick Lamar’s much-praised 2012 major label debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, is a shotgun ride through the gang-, gun-, and drug-infested city of fallen angels alongside Denzel Washington ...

Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

Johnny Hammond’s 1975 funk-jazz masterpiece, Gears, as the latest release from Jazz Dispensary’s acclaimed Top Shelf series. Produced by Larry and Fonce Mizell, who were instrumental in the ...

Here, on his first album as a leader, Cross delivers a standout showcase for his often-overlooked instrument, rumbling through elements of New Orleans funk, soul-jazz and Afrobeat with the help of ...

Instead, get yourself some deep '70s jazz; the kind that leaves a funk aroma and washes off easily when you take the plunge. Special Series It's Time To Party: Summer Songs ...

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.