The CD you are holding in your hands is a very special compilation. It's the celebration of CTI as one of the most "sampled" labels on Earth! For the past ten years, many CTI tracks have been cut up, ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...

Okay...this subject is an ongoing debate I have had with several of my jazz musician friends...is Acid Jazz just a name given by a radio disc jockey to promote some ...

Whether you’re familiar with the blues, funk, acid-jazz and soul of the New Mastersounds or you’ve never seen them before, you should make an effort to catch the band on Sunday at the Paul JAS Center.

It all came together in a matter of hours, according to Eugene musician Frank Visconti, trumpeter and manager with Natsukashii Soul, a brand-new jazz, R&B and funk quintet performing regularly in ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...