When SETI X—the San Francisco-based emcee and recipient of the Pharrell Williams-backed J Dilla Music Tech Grant—told me about a small brick-and-mortar he co-owned with Delrokz, a turntablist and ...
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Blackbyrds' City Life and Johnny Lytle's first-ever reissue of People & Love, both now ...
Blue Moods' Force & Grace is the third in a series of Posi-Tone releases in which music of under-recognized jazz composers is given a fair shake by bands comprised of some of the label's leading ...
In the ’60s, Manhattan hosted some of the greatest jazz music ever performed: Count Basie at Birdland, Thad Jones at the Village Vanguard, Miles Davis anywhere and everywhere. But back then Brian ...
In the early 1970s, Alvin Batiste, the cherished jazz clarinetist, composer and music educator who founded the Jazz Institute at Southern University, spearheaded the production of two albums that ...
Les McCann stood only 5 foot 7, but he was a towering figure when he sang and played piano. The rousing brand of soul-jazz he helped pioneer in the 1950s and ’60s inspired several generations of ...
Les McCann, a prolific and influential musician and recording artist who helped found the soul-jazz genre and became a favorite source for sampling by Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest and hundreds of ...
Few are the folks who could cast a literal shadow over the iconic Hammond B-3 organ, nicknamed "the Beast" by many of the jazz musicians who have helmed the hefty 425-pound instrument. But Reuben ...