Guitarist Paul Jackson, Jr., saxophonist Everette Harp and pianist Jeff Lorber are Jazz Funk Soul. *The latest project of the trio Jazz Funk Soul titled “Life and Times” (Shanachie) soars on ...

Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk vibraphonist, record producer and composer, whose warm grooves and sun-drenched melodies shaped generations of musicians, has died at the age of 84 following a ...

Detroit has long been a hub for many styles of music. With jazz, basement funk, blues, hip hop and Motown all tugging at local music lovers’ heartstrings, it’s no wonder the Motor City would ...

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 ...

Natsukashii Soul’s originals are in the same vein, adding neo-soul elements from artists like Erykah Badu and Amy Winehouse with jazz structure, unique chord voicings and polyrhythms, he adds. Unlike ...