Tonight on the Night Train, we mark birthdays of Latin Jazz giant Eddie Palmieri, pianist and composer Barry Harris, and hard ...
It’s the birthday today of December Featured Artist, soul jazz organ great Jimmy Smith. In honor of the occasion, we devote ...
When soul jazz was born in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it provided a pathway for the funky, window-rattling grooves of contemporary soul and R&B to infuse the muscular hard bop of the day. For the ...
Photos: Ken Spielman , Jamie Huenefeld , Marc Millman “When three modern groove masters of modern funk and soul-jazz converge ...
Funk and jazz fusion band Ghost-Note plays the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market on Saturday, Dec. 20. The band released their ...
“Lou Donaldson DSC0004a” by Marek Lazarski is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. On Saturday, Nov. 9, the jazz world lost a legend with the passing of Lou Donaldson. Donaldson was a bebop mainstay, a ...
The jazz musician was known for helping to pioneer the soul jazz sound and his 1969 recording of the protest song "Compared to What" Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music team at PEOPLE.
Jazz Fest’s 2026 headliners will feature a mix of classic rock, modern country, and soul, along with local flavor.
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has officially unveiled its full Jazz Fest 2026 lineup for April and May.
In the week leading up to this year’s Iowa City Jazz Fest, The Daily Iowan spoke with Damani Phillips, a local jazz saxophonist and associate professor of African-American studies at the University of ...