Kool & the Gang, Janelle Monae and the Roots are scheduled to headline the Jacksonville Jazz Festival ... all of the music this year will be in one place, on one stage.

It’s a suite that blends elements of jazz, classical music, and Spanish folk traditions into a cohesive and emotionally powerful whole. This groundbreaking album marked Miles Davis’s full embrace of ...

is its music. While I recommend that everyone who enjoys modern RPGs (especially fans of Sea of Stars) play Chrono Trigger, listening to the soundtrack is the next best thing. Despite covering ...

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue will once again close out the festival with a free show at Parcel 5 on Saturday, June, 28. He last performed at the 2023 jazz festival where an estimated 15,000 ...

His work in the 1970s as bandleader of the six-piece band Roy Ayers Ubiquity helped spawn the subgenre called acid jazz. “If I didn’t have music ... his father played trombone, his mother ...

The renowned musician made a series of ground-breaking albums in the 1970s and early 1980s that helped establish any genre by combining jazz, funk, and soul to produce his distinctive sound, which ...

Roy Ayers, who has died aged 84, was a pioneer of jazz-funk in the 1970s, the uplifting groove and messages of his music exemplified by his best-known track, Everybody Loves the Sunshine; although ...

“His sound mixed with cosmic soul-jazz is really what created artists like Erykah Badu and Jill Scott. It was just that groove. “That’s not to say people around then weren’t making music ...

As he studied music theory at Los Angeles City College, he played jazz in nightclubs. The first time Ayers appeared on record was on a session by saxophonist Curtis Amy. By 1963, he had his own ...

Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube In jazz, Chicago always has been a nurturer of fabulous eccentrics — musicians well-aware of what their coastal colleagues are playing but ...

A large and active group, the Southern Miss trombone studio includes music majors pursuing undergraduate degrees in music education, jazz studies, performance, BA; master's degrees in performance and ...