Defining article as a “luxury or a byproduct” as Jeff Jarvis did last month, is like suggesting jazz is secondary to rap music, or saying literature is a Deluxe version of slamming.

For one, jazz artists under a certain age — let's say 40, give or take — grew up in an age where hip-hop and R&B was pop music. This may not be a direct, or even lingering influence in their ...

The music for Netflix's "Self Made" runs the gamut from jazz to hip-hop to help tell the period tale of America's first female millionaire.

It’s got everything from real-deal jazz instrumentation to hard-hitting rap songs to avant-garde psychedelia to floor-shaking beats, and it’s loaded with an insane cast of guests.

Twenty-five years after its release, hindsight reveals one now-dated aspect of Guru's Jazzmatazz, Volume 1: The front cover refers to its fusion of hip-hop and jazz as "experimental." In 1993, the ...

I just heard all this jazz music in hip-hop so it was just kind of choosing all the worlds that I love. I like the saxophone and I just didn’t want to show people my taste in music on stage ...

This is unfortunate because rap, like older forms of black popular music now considered to be “America’s classical music,” is distinctive and important because it differs from the norms of ...

Presti's jazz-rap album "Milk Money" has recently resurfaced online. Torre was able to find a hard copy of the CD. While he ...

Linda Diaz and LA Buckner work together to break down how these two genres cross-pollinate Hip hop’s foundation and evolution owe itself to jazz. And it’s reciprocal. Jazz has borrowed from ...

A Tribe Called Quest‘s Q-Tip will serve as co-teacher for a New York University class that will examine the connection between hip-hop and jazz, the rapper revealed on Twitter. The seven-class ...