Saxophonist Isaiah Collier and his celebrated quartet, the Chosen Few, are among our city’s mightiest conduits of spiritual jazz. So when Collier and Chosen Few percussionist Michael Shekwoaga Ode ...

Saxophonist Kamasi Washington will be performing at the 2017 Cape Town International Jazz Festival. The golden era days of jazz-rap occurred during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Hip-hop artists of ...

The Life, Art And Transcendence Of Alice Coltrane by Ian Patterson on All About Jazz. Discover in-depth jazz Book Review ...

The play on words was unavoidable as both recordings touch on the galactic and vibrate with a dignity that “we" have come to expect only from the “masters" as recorded on the Deutche Grammaphon label.

This is FRESH AIR. There are two fat, new biographies of composers and pianists born 43 years apart. Their music transcended jazz, but recognition for their work was slow - James P. Johnson, born in ...

The Santa Monica Public Library’s Soundwaves new music series presents iconic jazz vocalist Dwight Trible and his band Cosmic Vibrations on Saturday, May 6 at 3:30PM, at the Pico Annex in Virginia ...

DETROIT RISING: A COSMIC JAZZ FUNK ADVENTURE--an unprecedented project created by universally respected musicians, including current and original members of the archetypal funk band ...

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Joel Robinson is a young man with a clear view of his heroes, artists like Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart, and the Meat Puppets, musicians who followed their own singular paths. As band leader of ...

Cochemea Gastelum is a horn player rooted in groove music: part of a network of players associated with Brooklyn’s Daptone label, he’s worked with Amy Winehouse, Antibalas, and Sharon Jones, an anchor ...